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Lawman (TV series)
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Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s, Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt.45 with Wayde Preston, one year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as just another western. At the start of two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon. The main sponsor of the series was the R. J, reynolds Tobacco Company through their Camel Cigarettes brand. The alternate sponsor was General Mills, the two main stars did spots endorsing Camel Cigarettes and Cheerios Breakfast Cereal. Dan Troop leaves Abilene, Kansas for the town of Laramie and he is offered the town marshals job after the previous marshal, David Lemp, is murdered. On the way into town, he meets Johnny McKay, who is placing a tombstone on Lemps grave. Johnny mistakes Dan for a crook, but they meet up again at the cafe owned by Lemps widow Dru, played by Bek Nelson. Dan puts a sign in the window of the office that reads. Johnny applies for the job, but Dan turns him down, because he believes that, at the age of nineteen, Dan later comes across Lacey Hawks, played by Edd Byrnes, in the Bluebonnet Saloon. Lacey tries to coax Dan into a gunfight, but Dan arrests him instead, Lacey promises Dan that his two brothers Flynn, played by Jack Elam, and Walt, played by Lee Van Cleef, will come after him. Johnny tells Dan that Flynn is the one who killed Marshal Lemp, and that the town saw him do it. He again volunteers to help Dan take them down, but Troop refuses, Johnny tells him that he cannot take both remaining Hawks Brothers alone. Dan goes out to them, anyway. Dan shoots Flynn, but then another shot from behind him. Dan sees Walt fall dead, and then turns around to see Johnny standing there with a rifle in his hand, Dan motions for Johnny to follow him back into the office and then takes down the Deputy Wanted sign
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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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Phoenix, Arizona
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Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U. S. state of Arizona. Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, the metropolitan area is the 12th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.3 million people as of 2010. Settled in 1867 as a community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers. Located in the reaches of the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix has a subtropical desert climate. Despite this, its canal system led to a farming community, many of the original crops remaining important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus. The city averaged a four percent annual growth rate over a 40-year period from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s. This growth rate slowed during the Great Recession of 2007–09, and has rebounded slowly, Phoenix is the cultural center of the Valley of the Sun, as well as the entire state. For more than 2,000 years, the Hohokam people occupied the land that would become Phoenix, the Hohokam created roughly 135 miles of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable. Paths of these canals would later used for the modern Arizona Canal, Central Arizona Project Canal. The Hohokam also carried out trade with the nearby Anasazi, Mogollon and Sinagua. It is believed that between 1300 and 1450, periods of drought and severe floods led to the Hohokam civilizations abandonment of the area. After the departure of the Hohokam, groups of Akimel Oodham, Tohono Oodham and Maricopa tribes began to use the area, as well as segments of the Yavapai and Apache. The Oodham were offshoots of the Sobaipuri tribe, who in turn were thought to be the descendants of the formerly urbanized Hohokam and their crops included corn, beans, and squash for food, while cotton and tobacco were also cultivated. Mostly a peaceful group, they did together with the Maricopa for their mutual protection against incursions by both the Yuma and Apache tribes. The Tohono Oodham lived in the region as well, but their concentration was to the south. Living in small settlements, the Oodham were seasonal farmers who took advantage of the rains and they also hunted local game such as deer, rabbit, and javalina for meat. When the Mexican–American War ended in 1848, Mexico ceded its northern zone to the United States, the Phoenix area became part of the New Mexico Territory. In 1863 the mining town of Wickenburg was the first to be established in what is now Maricopa County, at the time Maricopa County had not yet been incorporated, the land was within Yavapai County, which included the major town of Prescott to the north of Wickenburg
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects
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John Russell (actor)
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Born in Los Angeles, California, he fitted the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles as a student athlete, following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Marine Corps, though he was initially rejected because of his height. He was commissioned as lieutenant on November 11,1942. His division was sent to Guadalcanal, where he served as an assistant intelligence officer and he contracted malaria and returned home with a medical discharge. Russells first film appearance was in Frank Capras Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Otis Hopper, Russell was contracted to 20th Century Fox in several supporting roles and later was signed with Republic Pictures. He primarily played secondary roles, often in films, including William A. Wellmans 1948 Yellow Sky. In 1955, Russell was given the role in a television drama series called Soldiers of Fortune. The half-hour syndicated adventure show placed him and his sidekick, played by Chick Chandler, while the show proved popular with young boys, it did not draw enough adult viewers to its prime slot and was canceled in 1957. That same year, he made an appearance as a corrupt agricultural magnate in Untamed Youth, in 1958, Russell played Matt Reardon, a gunslinger befriended by Cheyenne Bodie in The Empty Gun episode of the ABC/Warner Bros. western series, Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker. In 1958, Russell was cast in his role, Marshal Dan Troop, the lead character in Lawman. Co-starring with Peter Brown, who played Deputy Johnny McKay, in 1959, Russell guest-starred in an episode of NBCs adventure series Northwest Passage, a fictionalized account of the exploits of Major Robert Rogers in the French and Indian War. In 1969, Russell appeared in five episodes of It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner, saturday Night In Venice, The Blue, Blue Danube, Payoff In The Piazza and A Friend In Deed. Russell appeared in the season of the Filmation childrens science-fiction series Jason of Star Command. He played Commander Stone, an alien from Alpha Centauri. He replaced James Doohan, who had played the commander in the previous season, Russell died of complications from emphysema in 1991, sixteen days after his 70th birthday, and was interred in the Los Angeles National Cemetery, a former U. S. Veterans Administration cemetery in Los Angeles, according to NNDB, he married twice. He married Renata Titus in 1943 and they had three children and divorced in 1965. He married again in 1970, but was divorced the following year, John Russell at the Internet Movie Database John Russell at Find a Grave Unofficial Lawman Western TV Series Homepage
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Laredo (TV series)
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Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965 to 1967 Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo in Webb County in south Texas, the program presented fifty-six episodes in color. It was produced by Universal Television, the pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBCs The Virginian under the title, Weve Lost a Train. In 1969, the pilot was released theatrically under the title Backtrack, Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas. Laredo combines action and humor with the focus on three fictitious Texas Rangers, Reese Bennett, played by Neville Brand, is older than his two partners. Brand was perhaps best known in his role as mobster Al Capone on the ABC/Desilu T. V. series, Chad Cooper is played by Peter Brown, the former co-star with John Russell of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Lawman. Reese was previously an officer of the Union Army during the American Civil War, originally from New Orleans, Chad was in the Border Patrol during the war, and joined the Rangers to search for gunrunners who had ambushed fellow border patrolmen. Joe was a gunfighter who was at times on the side of the law. He joined the Rangers to obtain protection from a sheriff, Chad and Joe tease Reese about his age, he was in his forties. The three Rangers are led by Captain Edward Parmalee, played by Philip Carey, later an opera star. Robert Wolders joined the show in the second and final season as Erik Hunter, Claude Akins played Ranger Cotton Buckmeister in five episodes but never became a part of the cast. Neville Brand. Reese Bennett Peter Brown. Chad Cooper William Smith. Joe Riley Philip Carey. Captain Edward Parmalee Robert Wolders. Erik Hunter, rookie Ranger Claude Akins. In Meanwhile Back at the Reservation, Joe Riley comes across Grey Smoke, an Indian boy portrayed by then 14-year-old Kurt Russell, Joe and Chad take Grey under their wing, and the boy proves helpful when gunslingers try to occupy Laredo. The Calico Kid focuses on a character used eleven years earlier in the western series Buffalo Bill. In the Laredo version, the Kid is Sam Lowell, who has matured in to a citizen of the fictional town of Guarded Wells. Chad and Joe try to help Lowell continue the deception of his true identity, Meanwhile, a businessman plots to steal gold bullion from the bank while the citizenry is distracted. In The Golden Trail, Jeanette Nolan is cast as Ma Burns, jim Davis appears in this episode as a sheriff. Nolan also appeared as Martha Tuforth in Its the End of the Road, Stanley, John Russell appeared as Robert in the episode Enemies and Brothers, reuniting him with his Lawman former co-star Peter Brown
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Dragon Lady
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A Dragon Lady is usually a stereotype of East Asian and occasionally South Asian women as strong, deceitful, domineering, or mysterious. The terms origin and usage is Western, not Chinese, inspired by the characters played by actress Anna May Wong, the term comes from the female villain in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates. It has since applied to powerful Asian women and to a number of racially Asian film actresses. The stereotype has generated a large quantity of sociological literature, Dragon Lady is sometimes applied to persons who lived before the term became part of American slang in the 1930s. It is also used to refer to any powerful but prickly woman, the character first appeared on December 16,1934, and the Dragon Lady appellation was first used on January 6,1935. The term does not appear in earlier Yellow Peril fiction such as the Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer or in the works of Matthew Phipps Shiel such as The Yellow Danger or The Dragon. However, a 1931 film based on Rohmer’s The Daughter of Fu Manchu, Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York Daily News syndicate, hired Caniff to create the new strip, a profile of Caniff in Time recounts the episode, Patterson. Asked, Ever do anything on the Orient and you know, Joe Patterson mused, adventure can still happen out there. There could be a beautiful lady pirate, the men fall for. In a few days Caniff was back with samples and 50 proposed titles, Patterson circled Terry and scribbled beside it and the Pirates. Women pirates in the South China Sea figure in both books, especially the one by Lilius, a portion of which is dedicated to the mysterious and real-life queen of the pirates, named Lai Choi San. Lai Choi San is a transliteration from Cantonese, the language of the woman, herself—thus. Caniff appropriated the Chinese name, Lai Choi San, as the name of his Dragon Lady. Patterson pointed out both books claimed to be non-fiction and that the name belonged to a real person, thus. Sources are not clear on whether it was Patterson or Caniff who coined that actual term and that stereotype—as is the case with other racial caricatures—has generated a large quantity of sociological literature. Today, Dragon Lady is often applied anachronistically to refer to persons who lived before the term became part of American slang in the 1930s. Today’s anachronistic use of Dragon Lady in such cases may lead the reader to assume that the term was in earlier use than appears to be the case
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United States Army
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The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, from the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force and it played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both sides were picked from members of the United States military. Not until the outbreak of World War II did a standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold Wars onset, the U. S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its personnel from a pool of paid volunteers. As of 2016, the United States spends about $580.3 billion annually to fund its military forces, put together, the United States constitutes roughly 40 percent of the worlds military expenditures. For the period 2010–14, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that the United States was the worlds largest exporter of major arms, the United States was also the worlds eighth largest importer of major weapons for the same period. The history of the U. S. military dates to 1775 and these forces demobilized in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris ended the War for Independence. All three services trace their origins to the founding of the Continental Army, the Continental Navy, the United States President is the U. S. militarys commander-in-chief. Rising tensions at various times with Britain and France and the ensuing Quasi-War and War of 1812 quickened the development of the U. S. Navy, the reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war. Time magazines Mark Thompson has suggested that with the War on Terror, Command over the armed forces is established in the United States Constitution. The sole power of command is vested in the President by Article II as Commander-in-Chief, the Constitution also allows for the creation of executive Departments headed principal officers whose opinion the President can require. This allowance in the Constitution formed the basis for creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 by the National Security Act, the Defense Department is headed by the Secretary of Defense, who is a civilian and member of the Cabinet. The Defense Secretary is second in the chain of command, just below the President. Together, the President and the Secretary of Defense comprise the National Command Authority, to coordinate military strategy with political affairs, the President has a National Security Council headed by the National Security Advisor. The collective body has only power to the President
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Alaska
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Alaska is a U. S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas–the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous, approximately half of Alaskas residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaskas economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy. The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30,1867, the area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11,1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3,1959, the name Alaska was introduced in the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the peninsula. It was derived from an Aleut, or Unangam idiom, which refers to the mainland of Alaska. Literally, it means object to which the action of the sea is directed, Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U. S. state on continental North America and it is technically part of the continental U. S. but is sometimes not included in colloquial use, Alaska is not part of the contiguous U. S. often called the Lower 48. The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent but is not connected by road to the rest of the North American highway system. Alaskas territorial waters touch Russias territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island, Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U. S. states combined. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by total area at 663,268 square miles, over twice the size of Texas, Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. Counting territorial waters, Alaska is larger than the area of the next three largest states, Texas, California, and Montana. It is also larger than the area of the 22 smallest U. S. states. Also referred to as the Panhandle or Inside Passage, this is the region of Alaska closest to the rest of the United States, as such, this was where most of the initial non-indigenous settlement occurred in the years following the Alaska Purchase. The region is dominated by the Alexander Archipelago as well as the Tongass National Forest and it contains the state capital Juneau, the former capital Sitka, and Ketchikan, at one time Alaskas largest city. The Alaska Marine Highway provides a vital transportation link throughout the area. The Interior is the largest region of Alaska, much of it is uninhabited wilderness, Fairbanks is the only large city in the region
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2nd Infantry Division (United States)
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The 2nd Infantry Division is a formation of the United States Army. Its current primary mission is the defense of South Korea in the stages of an invasion from North Korea until other American units can arrive. There are approximately 17,000 soldiers in the 2nd Infantry Division, with 10,000 of them stationed in South Korea, accounting for about 35% of the United States Forces Korea personnel. The 2nd Infantry Division is unique in that it is the only U. S. Army division that is made up partially of South Korean soldiers and this program began in 1950 by agreement with the first South Korean president, Syngman Rhee. Some 27,000 KATUSAs served with the U. S. forces at the end of the Korean War, as of May 2006, approximately 1,100 KATUSA soldiers serve with the 2ID. There were also more than 3,000 Dutch soldiers assigned to the division between 1950 and 1954, combined Division, the division is augmented by rotational BCTs from the rest of the U. S. Armys divisions. The 2nd Division was first constituted on 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army and it was organized on 26 October 1917 at Bourmont, Haute Marne, France. The division spent the winter of 1917–18 training with French and Scottish veterans, though judged unprepared by French tacticians, the American Expeditionary Force was committed to combat in the spring of 1918 in a desperate attempt to halt a German advance toward Paris. Major General Edward Mann Lewis Commanded the 3rd Brigade as they deployed to reinforce the battered French along the Paris to Metz road, the Division first fought at the Battle of Belleau Wood and contributed to shattering the four-year-old stalemate on the battlefield during the Château-Thierry campaign that followed. On 28 July 1918, Marine Corps Major General Lejeune assumed command of the 2nd Division and remained in that capacity until August 1919, the division went on to win hard-fought victories at Soissons and Blanc Mont. Finally the Indianhead Division participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive which ended any German hope for victory, on 11 November 1918 the Armistice was declared, and the 2nd Division entered Germany, where it assumed occupation duties until April 1919. 2nd Division returned to U. S. in July 1919, the 2nd Division was three times awarded the French Croix de guerre for gallantry under fire at Belleau Wood, Soissons, and Blanc Mont. This entitles current members of the division and of those regiments that were part of the division at time to wear a special lanyard, or fourragère. The division lost 1,964 killed in action and 9,782 wounded in action, third Battle of the Aisne Belleau Wood Château-Thierry campaign St. S. Government Printing Office,1950, pp. 510–592 and it remained there for the next 23 years, serving as an experimental unit, testing new concepts and innovations for the Army. Indianhead soldiers pioneered concepts of air mobility and anti-tank warfare, which served the army for the two decades on battlefields in every corner of the globe. The 2nd Division started participated in maneuvers at Christine, Texas between 3 and 27 January 1940 and it then moved to Horton, Texas for maneuvers from 26 April to 28 May 1940, followed by maneuvers at Cravens, Louisiana from 16 to 23 August 1940. It returned to Fort Sam Houston, where it continued training and refitting, until it moved to Brownwood, Texas for the VIII Corps maneuvers from 1 June through 14 June 1941 at Comanche, Texas
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Gasoline station
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A filling station is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold in the 2010s are gasoline and diesel fuel, Fuel dispensers are also known as bowsers, petrol pumps or gas pumps. Also, many filling stations incorporate a convenience store, which like most other buildings generally have electricity sockets, the convenience stores found in filling stations typically sell candy, soda/pop, snacks and, in some cases, a small selection of grocery items. Some also sell propane or butane and have added shops to their primary business, conversely, some chain stores, such as supermarkets, discount superstores, warehouse clubs, or traditional convenience stores, have provided filling stations on the premises. The term gas station is used in the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean. In some regions of Canada, the term gas bar is used, elsewhere in the English-speaking world, mainly in the Commonwealth, the fuel is known as petrol, and the term petrol station or petrol pump is used. In the United Kingdom and South Africa garage is still commonly used, similarly, in Australia, the term service station describes any petrol station. In Japanese English, it is called a gasoline stand, in Indian English, it is called a petrol pump or a petrol bunk. In some regions of America and Australia, many filling stations have a mechanic on duty, latest figures show there are now 8,455 petrol stations in the UK down from about 18,000 in 1992 and a peak of around 40,000 in the mid-1960s. The USA had 114,474 filling stations in 2012, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, in Canada, the number is on the decline. As of December 2008,12,684 were in operation, significantly down from about 20,000 stations recorded in 1989 In Japan, in Germany, the number dropped down to 14,300 in 2011. In China, according to different reports, the number is about 95,000 to 97,000. India –43,000 Russia - there were about 25,000 gas stations in the Russian Federation In Argentina, as of 2014, the first places that sold gasoline were pharmacies, as a side business. The first filling station was the city pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany, since 2008 the Bertha Benz Memorial Route commemorates this event. The increase in automobile ownership after Henry Ford started to sell automobiles that the class could afford resulted in an increased demand for filling stations. The worlds first purpose built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, the second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California in Seattle, Washington at what is now Pier 32. Reighards Gas Station in Altoona, Pennsylvania claims that it dates from 1909 and is the oldest existing gas station in the United States, early on, they were known to motorists as filling stations. The first drive-in filling station, Gulf Refining Company, opened to the public in Pittsburgh on December 1,1913 at Baum Blvd & St Clairs Street
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Sunset Strip
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The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile-and-a-half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywoods eastern border with Hollywood at Havenhurst Drive, the Strip is probably the best-known portion of Sunset, embracing boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry. It is also known for its array of huge, colorful billboards. It was illegal to gamble in the city, but legal in the county and this fostered the building of a rather wilder concentration of nightlife than Los Angeles would tolerate. In the 1920s a number of nightclubs and casinos moved in along the Strip, glamour and glitz defined the Strip in the 1930s and the 1940s, as its renowned restaurants and nightclubs became a playground for the rich and famous. There were movie legends and power brokers, and everyone of significance danced to stardom at such clubs as Ciros, the Mocambo. By the early 1960s, the Strip had lost favor with the majority of movie people, the Strip became a haven for rock musicians and their fans. Bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Byrds, Love, The Seeds, Frank Zappa, and many others played at clubs like the Whisky a Go Go, the Roxy, Pandoras Box, in July 1965 Go-Go dancers also began performing. The Hyatt West Hollywood became a notable hotel, in 1972, Rodney Bingenheimers English Disco opened on the Strip, being influenced by the British Glam Rock movement. It became a hangout for musicians, including The Stooges. The 1979 Donna Summer song Sunset People from the album Bad Girls, was about the nightlife on Sunset Boulevard, also, throughout the 1970s, much like New York Citys Times Square, the Strip became a haven for sleaze and prostitution. A. Guns, Guns N Roses and Whitesnake, the adoption of pay to play tactics, where bands are charged a fee to play at clubs, diminished its appeal to groups, other than as an industry showcase. Today the music industry establishment continues to dominate the clubs on the Strip, in November 1984, voters in West Hollywood passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate and the area became an independent city. Increasingly, the end of the Strip is occupied by office buildings, mostly catering to the entertainment industry. During the 1990s, the center of the music activity in Los Angeles shifted further east to areas like Echo Park, Los Feliz. Less remembered is a crime drama, Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier. Dan Raven featured several celebrities, including Bobby Darin, Marty Ingels,1979 film Hardcore had scenes from the Sunset Strip when George C. Scotts character Jake Van Dorn flew to Los Angeles as the first California city to find his teenage daughter
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Jack L. Warner
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Jack Leonard J. L. Warner, born Jacob Warner, in London, Ontario, was a Canadian-American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Warners career spanned some forty-five years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls, as co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the industrys first talking picture. After Sams death, Jack clashed with his older brothers, Harry. Although Warner was feared by many of his employees and inspired ridicule with his attempts at humor, he earned respect for his shrewd instincts. He recruited many of Warner Bros. top stars and promoted the social dramas for which the studio became known. Given to decisiveness, Warner once commented, If Im right fifty-one percent of the time, Throughout his career, he was viewed as a contradictory and enigmatic figure. Although he was a staunch Republican, Warner encouraged film projects that promoted the agenda of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal and he opposed European fascism and criticized Nazi Germany well before Americas involvement in World War II. Despite his controversial image, Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his retirement in the early 1970s. Jack Warner was born in London, Ontario, in 1892 and his parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who spoke mainly Yiddish. Jack was the surviving son of Benjamin Warner a cobbler from Krasnosielc, Poland, and his wife. Following their marriage in 1876, the couple had three children in Poland, one of whom died at a young age, one of the surviving children was Jacks eldest brother, Hirsch. The Warner family had occupied a hostile world, where the night-riding of cossacks, the burning of houses, and the raping of women were part of lifes burden for the Jews of the shtetl. In 1888, in search of a future for his family and himself, Benjamin made his way to Hamburg, Germany. Pearl Warner and the two children joined him in Baltimore, Maryland, less than a year later. In Baltimore, the couple had five children, including Abraham and Sam Warner. Benjamin Warners decision to move to Canada in the early 1890s was inspired by a friends advice that he could make an excellent living bartering tin wares with trappers in exchange for furs and their sons Jack and David were born in Ontario. After two arduous years in Canada, Benjamin and Pearl Warner returned to Baltimore, bringing along their growing family, two more children, Sadie and Milton, were added to the household there
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Red Nightmare
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Red Nightmare is the best known title of the 1957 Armed Forces Information Film 120, Freedom and You. It was an anti-communist short presented as a film about the nature of Communism. The films chief use was to mold public opinion against communism, the film was later released to American television and as an educational film to American schools under the Red Nightmare title. The film is a Cold War-era drama short subject starring Jack Kelly, Red Nightmare was directed by George Waggner and narrated by Jack Webb. Though made for the Department of Defense, it was shown on American television on Jack Webbs GE True in 1962. A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creation of US communities for the purpose of training infiltrators, spies. The film begins in what looks like a typical American town, the camera moves back to reveal barbed wire, barricades, and soldiers in Soviet Army uniforms. Narrator Jack Webb informs us that there are several places behind the Iron Curtain used for training Soviet espionage and sabotage forces prior to infiltrating America, Webb introduces us to a typical American family of father Jerry, wife Helen, and daughter Linda Donovan. Her boyfriend Bill Martin has been invited to dinner but while Jerry lectures Bill on football plays, all is not well, as Jerrys missing his PTA meeting to go bowling, and his intention to miss his Army Reserve training does not go over well with Helen. Linda and Bill inform Jerry and Helen they wish to get married but Jerry is angered and says they are too young, but he would have no objection if they waited five years after university. Jack Webb explains how safe Jerry is in his world, but when Jerry goes to sleep, Webb looks grim, Jerry awakes to find meetings in the public square about infiltrating America to bring down Capitalism. He returns home to find his daughter going to a farm collective escorted by Bill, Helen informs Jerry that he will have to address the PTA on the glories of communism, which Jerry refuses to do, but his wife says he has no choice. At work, Jerrys foreman tells him that he has not met his quota, on Sunday morning, Jerry wakes to find his two youngest children being sent to a State Communist school against his wishes. Jerry knocks the exhibits over, and is arrested by troops led by a Commissar, Jerry is brought to trial at a Soviet tribunal, where there is no jury nor a defense attorney. Jerry demands to know what he is charged with, but the rights Americans take for granted are long gone, after condemning testimony from several witnesses, including his own wife, Jerry is convicted and sentenced to death. When he is strapped into the chair, Jerry makes a speech about the Soviet people awakening one day to overthrow communism. Jerry wakes up to his freedoms and apologizes to Bill and Linda, Bill says that Jerry had a point about waiting to get married and he and Linda will do so after he finishes his enlistment in the United States Army
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Darby's Rangers
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Darbys Rangers is a 1958 war film starring James Garner as William Orlando Darby, who organized and led the first units of United States Army Rangers during World War II. The movie was shot by Warner Brothers Studios in black and white to match wartime stock footage included in the production and was directed by William Wellman. The film was based on the 1945 book Darbys Rangers, An Illustrated Portrayal of the Original Rangers by Major James J. Altieri, the US Army has decided to form an elite strike force similar to the British Commandos. Darby and Master Sergeant Saul Rosen, who narrates the film. Darby tells his men that the Commandos are the best soldiers in the world, the Rangers prove their worth in Operation Torch, and two more Ranger battalions are formed, with Darby promoted to colonel. Joining the Rangers is Second Lieutenant Arnold Dittmann, a by-the-book West Pointer, the Rangers fight successfully in Sicily. There are several scenes in a bombed-out Italian village where the men face a sniper. Lt. Dittmann is humanized by his encounter with Angelina De Lotta, Darby confides to Rosen a recurring dream of being run over by an oncoming train, foreshadowing the tragic climax. During the Battle of Anzio, the 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions are sent on a dangerous mission, of the 767 men who go in, only seven come back, the majority being captured. Darby leads his 4th Ranger Battalion in a rescue attempt. After the heavy losses at Cisterna, the Ranger units are disbanded, brief vignettes show Bishop on leave with Wendy and her family, and Dittman with Angelina. Darby leaves the Anzio beachhead to report to Army HQ, taking salutes from newly arrived troops as he walks alone down the beach to board a landing craft, Altieri was known to Warner Brothers, as he had been technical advisor on Force of Arms. Director William Wellmans reputation for superb war films lay in The Story of G. I and he was hired on condition that Warner Brothers finance his dream project, Lafayette Escadrille, about his own World War I Foreign Legion air squadron. Warner Brothers emphasised the romantic pairings of most of the leads, as a feature of the film, to emulate the success of Battle Cry, another problem was with the Army. The Marine Corps had enthusiastically lent bases, Marine extras, but the Army was not so keen on this project. The Army felt that Ranger operations led to losses of excellent soldiers that the Army thought would be better employed leading regular infantry units. Thus, the U. S. Armys co-operation was limited to training the actors, originally, Charlton Heston was cast as William O. Darby. He was enthusiastic about portraying a recent historical figure, he could interview people who knew Darby in creating his characterization, however, he asked for five percent of the profits
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Onionhead
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It was directed by Norman Taurog and was written by Nelson Gidding and Weldon Hill from Hills novel. Weldon Hill was the pseudonym of William R. Scott, a native Oklahoman who based the novel on his own World War II service in the Coast Guard. Griffith had experienced success with his previous service comedy, No Time for Sergeants and it was marketed as an uproarious comedy but is actually a comedy-drama with some fairly dark themes. Onionhead was such a flop that it drove Griffith into television. In the spring of 1941, Al Woods quits an Oklahoma college to join the forces after a quarrel with his co-ed sweetheart. He joins the Coast Guard, partly by chance due to the flip of a coin, after boot training, Al is assigned to a buoy tender in Boston, the Periwinkle, as a ships cook although he has no cooking experience. He encounters immediate hostility from the chief of the galley, Red Wildoe, from new crew mates and cooks helpers Gutsell and Poznicki, in a Boston bar, Al picks up Stella, who appears to do this kind of thing with some regularity. They develop an attraction, but she seems to be holding out for something more. He befriends Gutsell by fixing him up with a girlfriend of Stellas and learns from Wildoe how to be a ships cook, making a number of embarrassing mistakes. Al, frustrated after Stella wont spend a night in a room with him, stops seeing her, whereupon he. Wildoe begins seeing Stella with Als blessing, pearl Harbor is attacked and war declared. Wildoe abruptly proposes to Stella and they marry, a free-for-all breaks out at their wedding celebration, with a jealous Al instigating a fight with soldiers who are clearly familiar with Stella already. Wildoe is assigned to another vessel performing convoy duty at sea, during this time, Stella begins seeing other men. Al tries to prevent this on Wildoes behalf, but cant resist Stella himself, aboard the Periwinkle, Al becomes the new chief cook. Higgins, promoted to officer, is discovered entering lesser amounts than they pay for the cost of officers meals into the ledger of the ships mess. He purchases substandard food for the crew in order to keep the budget from showing a deficit. Higgins also objects to finding Als hair in his food, so Al shaves his scalp bald, assuming erroneously that all the officers are in on the scam, Al bypasses channels to report the theft to the District Office. During leave back home to attend his fathers funeral, Al reconnects with Jo, in port again, Wildoe asks Al to take Stella home from the bar one night when he is recalled to his ship
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Merrill's Marauders (film)
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The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr. a communications officer who served with Merrills Marauders. The film begins with off-screen narration over black-and-white historical footage of the World War II Burmese campaign, the film then segues into Technicolor as we observe Lt. Stockton’s platoon moving through the jungle toward their first objective, the Japanese-held town of Walawbum. After Stockton radios Gen. Merrill that they are nearing their goal, he, afterwards, General Joseph Stilwell arrives in Walawbum to order Merrill on another objective, the railroad center of Shaduzup, and ultimately the strategic airstrip at Myitkyina. With reluctance, Merrill later summons Stockton to brief him on their next mission, the brigade continues their mission up steep mountains for several days and nights before digging in just outside Myitkyina. As night falls, the unit endures a massive artillery barrage, the dawn then brings a Japanese banzai attack, which Merrill’s men successfully repel. Then, while desperately rallying what is left of his unit to move on to the base at Myitkyina, the men, led by Stockton, slowly rise up and trudge onward toward Myitkyina as an incredulous Doc cradles Merrill in his arms. In fact, it is Doc’s off-screen narration we hear next as he informs us that Myitkyina was indeed taken, Jeff Chandler as Brig. Gen. Frank D. Merrill Ty Hardin as 2nd Lt. Lee Stockton Peter Brown as Bullseye Andrew Duggan as Capt, abraham Lewis Kolodny, MD Will Hutchins as Chowhound Claude Akins as Sgt. Doskis Samuel Vaughan Wilson as Lt. S, due to bad weather, Fuller shot six days over the allotted 41-day shooting schedule. Sperling approached the experienced Samuel Fuller to write and direct The Marauders in early 1961, Fuller was then attempting to have Warner Bros. finance and make his dream project, The Big Red One, and initially refused Sperlings offer. Warner summoned Fuller and told him that Merrills Marauders would be a dry run for his The Big Red One, for the lead role, Fuller wanted Gary Cooper, who refused it because of ill-health. Fuller was impressed with former Universal Pictures contract star Jeff Chandler, Samuel Fuller and Milton Sperling simplify, but follow the events and narrative of Ogburns historical account. The screenplay also features a medical officer Doc continually briefing Merrill on the physical and psychological condition of the men. Stock and Doc are a Greek Chorus that explains decisions, morale, unlike the characters in The Naked and the Dead who continually have flashbacks and viciously hate each other, the Marauders are professional veterans who respect each other. They gradually deteriorate when the one mission becomes two, then three, then a one, and a beat-the-clock narrative in capturing an airstrip before the monsoon grounds aircraft. The audience sees the effects on the men of not only action, but hunger, tropical diseases, disorientation, sleep deprivation. The soldiers continue, demonstrating superb combat leadership, professionalism, sacrifice, Merrills Marauders was photographed by William H. Clothier, who used a trick from his work on The Alamo, silence precedes and follows the loud battle scenes. Fuller also eschewed sound effects for the sound of blanks
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Crossover (fiction)
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A crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, unauthorized efforts by fans or common corporate ownership, Crossovers often occur in an official capacity in order for the intellectual property rights holders to reap the financial reward of combining two or more popular, established properties. In other cases, the crossover can serve to introduce a new derivative of an older one. They may also involve using characters that have passed into the domain with those concurrently under copyright protection. A crossover story may try to explain its own reason for the crossover, some crossovers are not explained at all. Others are absurd or simply impossible within the setting, and have to be ignored by the series respective continuities. Still others intentionally make the relations between two or more fictional universes confusing, as with The Simpsons and Futurama, where each show is fiction in the other. Crossovers of multiple characters owned by one company or published by one publisher, have used to set an established continuity. This is especially true of comic book publishers, as different characters in various Marvel, for example, in the Marvel Comics universe, Spider-Man has frequent dealings with another Marvel hero, Daredevil, just as in the DC Comics Universe, Batman and Superman often collaborate. In comic book terminology, these guest star roles are common enough that they are not considered crossovers, rather, a crossover in comic book terms only occurs when a story spans more than one title. This has led to events, in which major occurrences are shown as affecting most or all of the stories in the shared universe. This story dealt with Zatanna attempting to reconnect with her father, Zatara, and seeking the aid of Hawkman, Batman, Robin, The Atom, Green Lantern, the first major crossover event was spearheaded by the Marvel Editor-in-Chief at the time, Jim Shooter. As a way to further toy sales he devised the Secret Wars crossover which brought all the major Marvel heroes into a twelve issue mini-series to battle a common threat, after the threat was dealt with they all returned to their regular titles. This Secret Wars was hailed as both a critical and commercial success largely because the events of the crossover had lasting effects on the characters, Jim Shooter later perfected his crossover at Valiant Comics with the Unity event. Unity brought all the Valiant characters together to defeat Mothergod but was told within the existing Valiant Comics titles, readers were not obliged to buy all 18 chapters as the story was coherent when reading just one title, but far more layered when all were read. Like Secret Wars, the Unity crossover had lasting effects on the Valiant universe most notably the introduction of Turok, the birth of Magnus Robot Fighter and the death of a major Valiant hero. Dark Horse Comicss Aliens Versus Predator franchise was a success that continued into many games, the comic crossovers from Raj Comics are very famous in India, in which the super heroes meet to fight a common enemy. Many of these crossovers have occurred between Nagraj and Super Commando Dhruva, in Kohram, all the heroes in Raj Universe meet to finish Haru, an extremely powerful enemy
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Maverick (TV series)
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Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22,1957 to July 8,1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick and they would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intrinsically ethical, when Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the season as a third Maverick brother. No more than two of the series ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one. Budd Boetticher directed several of the episodes of the first season and Robert Altman wrote. The show was part of the Warner Bros. array of Westerns, which included Cheyenne, Colt.45, Lawman, Bronco, The Alaskans, Bret Maverick is the epitome of a poker-playing rounder, always seeking out high-stakes games and rarely remaining in one place for long. Staff casting their new television series, Maverick often bested The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show in the television ratings. Huggins inverted the usual cowboy hero characteristics familiar to television and movie viewers of the time, Bret Maverick was vocally reluctant to risk his life, though he typically ended up being courageous in spite of himself. He frequently flimflammed adversaries, but only those who deserved it, otherwise he was honest almost to a fault, in at least one case insisting on repaying a questionable large debt. None of the Mavericks were particularly fast draws with a pistol, Bart once commented to a lady friend, My brother Bret can outdraw me any day of the week, and hes known as the Second Slowest Gun in the West. However, it was almost impossible for anyone to beat them in any sort of a fistfight, critics have repeatedly referred to Bret Maverick as arguably the first TV anti-hero, and have praised the show for its photography and Garners charisma and subtly comedic facial expressions. Nonetheless, most TV anti-heroes, such as Eddie Haskell, Dr. Zachery Smith, and J. R. Ewing are at heart self-serving and egocentric, a description that does not fit any Maverick. Though Garner was originally supposed to be the only Maverick, the studio eventually hired Jack Kelly to play brother Bart, starting with the eighth episode. The producers had realized that it took over a week to shoot an episode, so Kelly was hired to rotate with Garner as the series lead. In Barts first episode, Hostage. in order to engender audience sympathy for the new character, there was however, one distinct—but accidental—difference between the two. Garners episodes tended to be more due to his obvious talent in that area. Huggins noted in the aforementioned Archive of American Television interview that Kelly, while funnier than Garner off camera, dropped a funny line while shooting a scene like a load of coal
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Jack Kelly (actor)
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Kelly later became a politician, having served from 1983 to 1986 as the mayor of Huntington Beach, California. His mother, Nan Kelly, had been a stage actress. Kellys father was a ticket broker, and after he moved the family to Hollywood. His sister, Oscar-nominated actress Nancy Kelly, was a prominent leading lady opposite Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and his other two siblings, Carole and William Clement, also tried show business. When the Kellys were children, their mother would not serve meat or give medication when they were sick. Kelly served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, Kelly made his film debut in an uncredited role in the 1939 biopic The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, opposite Don Ameche and Loretta Young. On July 15,1954, Kelly played the gunfighter, cattleman, in 1955-1956 television season, Kelly starred in a series based on the 1942 feature film Kings Row. He played Dr. Parris Mitchell, a young psychiatrist coping with the environment of his small town. Kings Row was one-third of the Warner Bros, presents wheel series, hosted by Gig Young. It rotated at the hour of 7,30 Eastern on Tuesday with a similar television version of the popular movie Casablanca as well as the new ABC Western series Cheyenne starring Clint Walker. After the series ended in 1956, Kelly appeared in Forbidden Planet and She-Devil, along with guest roles on Fireside Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Lux Video Theatre, the various anti-heroic Mavericks were dapper professional poker-players roaming the Old West with the benefit of superb scripts. The series had a cultural impact during a time when there were only three television networks and most cities had only three TV channels to choose from. Mavericks demanding filming schedule had caused production to lag behind early on, the producers decided to give Bret Maverick a brother so as not to run out of episodes long before the end of the season. Thus, Kelly was introduced as Bart Maverick in Hostage, the eighth episode of the series. While he may not have matched Garners popularity on Maverick, Kelly did have his enthusiastic admirers, possessing a deep voice, a John Barrymore-like profile and an easy-going screen presence, Kelly enjoyed an attentive following among female viewers of the series. Kelly shared the lead with James Garner in one of the shows most-discussed episodes, Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, the pair also co-starred in the famous Pappy episode in which Garner played the brothers much-quoted father Beauregard Pappy Maverick, in addition to his regular role of Bret. Aided by trick photography, Bret and Pappy play cards together in one scene, Bart also rescued Bret at the climax of Duel at Sundown, in which Garner fist fought guest star Clint Eastwood. All but one script during the shows first two years were written with Garner in mind regardless of which actor would eventually be cast, Roy Huggins insisted that the writers visualize Garner as Maverick while writing the scripts
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Cheyenne (TV series)
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Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, the series began as a part of Warner Brothers Presents, a wheel program that alternated three different series in rotation. In its first year, Cheyenne traded broadcast weeks with Casablanca, thereafter, Cheyenne was overhauled by new producer Roy Huggins and left the umbrella of WBP. The show starred Clint Walker, a native of Illinois, as Cheyenne Bodie, the episode reveals that Bodies parents were massacred by Indians, the tribe of which is unknown. He was taken by Cheyenne Indians when he was ten years old, in the series the character Bodie maintains a positive and understanding attitude toward the Native Americans despite the slaughter of his parents. The interim saw the introduction of a virtual Bodie-clone called Bronco Layne, played by Ty Hardin, born in New York City, Hardin was featured as the quasi main character during Bodies absence. When Warners renegotiated Walkers contract and the returned to the show in 1959, Bronco was spun off as a show in its own right. For most of their runs, Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins, Cheyenne was the senior partner of the three. Only a snippet of the Bronco theme song was heard in the opening credits, occasionally Cheyenne, Bronco, and Sugarfoot appeared together in the same episode of each others series. In the 1961 Cheyenne episode Duel at Judas Basin, Walker, Hardin, the trapper has also framed Tom Sugarfoot Brewster for murder. He told reporters that he felt like a caged animal, though Cheyenne aired for seven years, the series made only 108 episodes because it was in repeated alternation with other programs and was out of production during Clint Walkers contract dispute. However, because Cheyenne Bodie never appeared in Ragan, the two programs are only tenuously linked. Walker reprised the Cheyenne Bodie character in 1991 for the TV-movie The Gambler Returns, The Luck of the Draw and also played Cheyenne in an episode of Kung Fu, The Legend Continues in 1995. Claude Akins was cast as tough-minded Sheriff Bob Walters, with Gail Kobe as Della Carver, chris Alcaide appeared as Deputy Hack in Star in the Dust and as Harry Thomas in The Quick and the Deadly. Evelyn Ankers appeared as saloon owner Robbie James, who tries to keep her daughter from learning about her occupation, R. G. Armstrong was cast as Nathanael Grimm in The Return of Mr. Grimm. In the story line, the wealthy Grimm seeks the hanging of Sheriff Cheyenne Bodie for the homicide of Grimms wayward son. Grimm closes the businesses he controls in town, and the threatened townsmen demand that Bodie stand trial though no crime has been committed, anita Sands appears as Grimms secret daughter-in-law, Grace Evans, who unknown to him is carrying his grandson. Barry Atwater played George A. Custer, with Liam Sullivan as Marcus Reno, in the episode, Gold, Glory, and Custer - Prelude and Gold, Glory
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Clint Walker
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Norman Eugene Clint Walker is a retired American actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role as cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne, Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois, the son of Gladys Huldah and Paul Arnold Walker. He had a sister named Lucy. Walker left school to work at a factory and on a river boat, after leaving the Merchant Marine, he worked doing odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel. Walker was also employed as a metal worker and a nightclub bouncer. Walker became a client of Henry Willson, who renamed him Jett Norman, in Los Angeles, he was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to appear in The Ten Commandments, a friend in the film industry helped get him a few bit parts that brought him to the attention of Warner Brothers, which was developing a western style television series. Walkers good looks and imposing physique helped him land an audition where he won the role in the TV series Cheyenne. Billed as Clint Walker, he was cast as Cheyenne Bodie, while the series regularly capitalized on Walkers rugged frame with frequent bare-chested scenes, it was also well written and acted. It proved hugely popular for eight seasons, Walkers pleasant baritone singing voice was also occasionally utilized on the series and led Warner Brothers to produce an album of Walker doing traditional songs and ballads. And there is something winning about his taciturn earnestness as an actor, in 1958, Thompson described the actor, then starring in Fort Dobbs, as the biggest, finest-looking Western hero ever to sag a horse, with a pair of shoulders rivaling King Kongs. During the 1970s he returned to television, starring in a number of western films as well as a short-lived series in 1974 called Kodiak. He starred in the cult film Killdozer. In 1998, he voiced Nick Nitro in the film Small Soldiers, Walker met western author Kirby Jonas through James Drury, a mutual friend. Jonas and Walker subsequently spent two years collaborating on a storyline by Walker involving gold and the Yaqui, a partnership led to the publication of the 2003 Western novel Yaqui Gold. Walker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1505 Vine Street, in 2004, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Walker married Verna Garver in 1948, they divorced 1968 and had one daughter, Valerie, Walker married Giselle Hennesy in 1974, she died in 1994. Walker then married Susan Cavallari in 1997 and he currently lives in Grass Valley, California
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Bronco (TV series)
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Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom, Bronco premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Brothers executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walkers contract on the series Cheyenne. Walker had walked out on his show over such stringent clauses as a requirement that he return half of all personal appearance fees to Warner Brothers, and that he only record for Warner music labels. When the two came to an impasse, the network hired newcomer Ty Hardin to play the new character of Bronco Layne. When Walker came back to his series, Bronco became a spin-off of Cheyenne, Bronco at first alternated with another Western series, Sugarfoot, featuring Will Hutchins. In 1960, the two began alternating with Cheyenne under the Cheyenne title, Sugarfoot was dropped in 1961, leaving only Bronco and Cheyenne to alternate. According to the song, Bronco came from the Texas Panhandle. As it develops, Mary is not interested so much in story ideas but in the body of a man buried in a nearby glacier and missing gold. Some four years before the debut of his The Virginian, James Drury plays the part of John Smith, edgar Stehli plays the part of Pancake Riddle. Peter Breck as Theodore Roosevelt in Yankee Tornado Ahna Capri appeared as the child Emily in A Town That Lived and Died. as Manuel Figueres in Flight from an Empire I, tony Young appeared twice, as Cpl. Red Bird in The Burning Springs and as Tod Chapman in One Evening in Abilene, jack Nicholson appeared as the young lover Bob in the episode The Equalizer - season 4 episode 4. Jack Elam played Mr Thompson in the episode The Equalizer - season 4 episode 4, Warner Bros. has released the first three seasons on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. These are manufacture-on-demand releases, available through Warners online store and Amazon. com, the fourth and final season was released on May 19,2015. Bronco episode guide Bronco at the Internet Movie Database Bronco at TV. com
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Ty Hardin
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Orton or Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr. known as Ty Hardin is a former American actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series Bronco. Hardin was born in New York City but reared in Texas, as a growing boy, his grandmother, with whom he lived part of the time after his parents divorced, nicknamed him Ty because he was as active as a Texas typhoon. Hardin graduated in 1949 from Lamar High School in Houston and he also attended on a football scholarship Blinn Junior College in Brenham, Texas, and then at Dallass Bible Institute for one semester. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War and he was commissioned after attending Officer Candidate School in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and he became a pilot of Forward Observer O-1 Bird Dog liaison aircraft. He attained the rank of first lieutenant, after his return from service, he began taking courses at Texas A&M University in College Station on a football scholarship under coach Bear Bryant, for whom he played tight end. He worked as an engineer at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica. A Paramount Pictures talent scout discovered Hardin while Hardin attended a costume party and he had rented six-guns from a motion picture costume rental company. By 1957, Hardin acquired the services of agent Henry Willson, initially billed as Ty Hungerford, he made various minor appearances in several Paramount films, such as I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Last Train from Gun Hill. According to Hardin, he tried to obtain a role in the film Rio Bravo that had been promised to singer Ricky Nelson. John Wayne reportedly saw Hardin while visiting a set at Paramount and was impressed with Hardins appearance. Wayne introduced him to Howard Hawks and William T and he also attended actors school at Warner Brothers and landed small parts in various Warner productions. When Clint Walker walked out on his ABC series Cheyenne in 1958 during a dispute with Warner Brothers. Warner bought out his contract from Paramount Studios and installed him into The Cheyenne Show, Walker and Warner Brothers came to terms after the season ended, but Hardin had made such a big hit on the show that Jack L. Warner gave him his own series, Bronco, under the Cheyenne title, Bronco alternated weeks with Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins, and Cheyenne for four years. The series ran from 1958 to 1962, when his contract expired, Hardin left Hollywood to seek opportunity overseas as his series aired all over the world. Like many other American actors, Hardin traveled to Europe, where he made several spaghetti westerns and he also appeared in American-financed all-star epics such as Battle of the Bulge and Custer of the West. He was reportedly the first choice to play the role in the television series Batman. Hardin turned down Batman because of film commitments overseas, Hardin has married eight times, divorced seven times, and has ten children from five of his marriages
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Sugarfoot
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Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957-61 on Tuesday nights on a shared slot basis – rotating with Cheyenne, Cheyenne and Bronco, and Bronco. The Warner Bros production stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer, Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname Sugarfoot. The pilot and premiere episode, Brannigans Boots, was so similar to The Boy from Oklahoma that Sheb Wooley, as played by Rogers in the film, Brewster avoided firearms but preferred to vanquish villains with his roping skills if friendly persuasion failed. Perhaps for practical reasons, the pilot altered the character slightly and made Brewster reluctant to use firearms but able and that remained his stance throughout the series, and the title song mentions that Sugarfoot carries a rifle and a law book. Whenever he enters a saloon, Sugarfoot refuses alcohol and orders sarsaparilla with a dash of cherry, Sugarfoot was one of the earliest products of the alliance between ABC and the fledgling Warner Brothers Television Department, chaired by William T. Orr. During the same period, other similar programs would appear, including Maverick, Cheyenne, Bronco, Lawman, Hutchins appeared as Sugarfoot in crossover episodes of Cheyenne and Maverick, and in an installment of Bronco called The Yankee Tornado, with Peter Breck as a young Theodore Roosevelt. Jack Kelly appeared as Bart Maverick in the Sugarfoot episode A Price on His Head, Sugarfoot is only partly set in Oklahoma, the character seems to appear at any place in the West though geographic place names are often missing in the scripts. He often journeys south of the border into Mexico, and numerous episodes are rich in Hispanic culture, the pilot and premiere episode, Brannigans Boots, aired on September 17,1957. Brewster takes the appointment seriously and symbolically puts on a pair of left behind in the sheriffs office. Brannigans daughter, Katie, sees Brewster wearing her fathers boots and she questions whether he is capable of filling her fathers boots. Sugarfoot then successfully finds her fathers killer but not without an incident with Billy the Kid. He soon wins Katies heart too, the opening episode reveals that Sugarfoots guns, mailed to him by his mother, were those of his late father. Katie BranniganLon Chaney, Jr. Crazy CharlieAnthony Caruso, pop Pruty, Justice of the PeaceMerv Griffin. Joe Downey In Reluctant Hero, the episode of the series. He soon finds that Cade is involved in a war with Ken and Linda Brazwell, brother-and-sister ranchers played by Michael Dante. Sugarfoot clashes with Cades foreman Curly Day, who burns down Cades ranch house after Cade fires him, Cade dies in the fire, and Sugarfoot is shot in the attack. Linda takes it upon herself to nurse Sugarfoot back to health, stanford Jolley plays the mysterious The Nighthawk
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Will Hutchins
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Will Hutchins is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from the Oklahoma Territory, Tom Brewster, in the Warner Bros. Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961, Hutchins was born in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. As a child, he visited the filming of Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. He attended Pomona College in Claremont, where he majored in Greek drama and he also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he enrolled in cinema classes. During the Korean War, he served for two years in the United States Army as a cryptographer in Paris, serving with SHAPE, Hutchins was discovered by a talent scout for Warner Bros. who changed his name from Marshall Lowell Hutchason to Will Hutchins. The young actors easygoing manner was compared to Will Rogers, the Oklahoma humorist and his contract led him to guest appearances in Warner Bros. Television programs, such as Conflict, in which he appeared in three episodes, including his screen debut as Ed Masters in The Magic Brew on October 16,1956. Hutchins was also cast as a guest star on Cheyenne, Bronco and he was released from his contract with Warner Bros. in 1961 after co-starring with Jeff Chandler in Merrills Marauders, a picture filmed in the Philippine Islands and Chandlers last acting role. While appearing in a play in Chicago in late 1963, he was flown to Los Angeles to shoot a pilot for MGM. Gordons Take Me to Your Leader, in which Hutchins played a Martian salesman who came to Earth. Though the pilot was not picked up, it led MGM to sign him for Spinout, in which he co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards alongside Elvis Presley, in 1965, Hutchins co-starred with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates in Monte Hellmans The Shooting. In 1966, he made a guest appearance on the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason as murderer Don Hobart in The Case of the Scarlet Scandal, following that, he appeared as Patches the Clown in Ashtons Circus in Australia. In 1968-69, Hutchins starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a CBS television version of the comic strip Blondie.115 Hutchins was married to Chris Burnett, sister of Carol Burnett,1965, The Shooting, Monte Hellmans low-budget Western with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates. 1966, Spinout, Hutchins co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards with Elvis Presley,1967, Clambake, Hutchins co-stars with Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby. 1970, Shangani Patrol, co-starred as real-life American scout Frederick Burnham in a film based on the events of the Shangani Patrol. 1976, The Quest, a short-lived NBC western series, starring Kurt Russell,1998, Gunfighter, a modern Western directed by Christopher Coppola
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Colonel
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Colonel is a senior military officer rank below the general officer ranks. However, in small military forces, such as those of Iceland or the Vatican. It is also used in police forces and paramilitary organizations. Historically, in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of a regiment in an army, the rank of colonel is typically above the rank of lieutenant colonel. The rank above colonel is typically called brigadier, brigade general or brigadier general, equivalent naval ranks may be called captain or ship-of-the-line captain. In the Commonwealth air force rank system, the equivalent rank is group captain, the word colonel derives from the same root as the word column and means of a column, and, by implication, commander of a column. The word colonel is therefore linked to the column in a similar way that brigadier is linked to brigade. By the end of the medieval period, a group of companies was referred to as a column of an army. Since the word is believed to derive from sixteenth-century Italian, it was presumably first used by Italian city states in that century. The first use of colonel as a rank in an army was in the French National Legions created by King Francis I by his decree of 1534. Building on the reforms of Louis XIIs decree of 1509. Each colonel commanded a legion with a strength of six thousand men. With the shift from primarily mercenary to primarily national armies in the course of the seventeenth century, the Spanish equivalent rank of coronel was used by the Spanish tercios in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, nicknamed the Great Captain, divided his armies in coronelías or colonelcies, however, the Spanish word probably derives from a different origin, in that it appears to designate an officer of the crown, rather than an officer of the column. This makes the Spanish word coronel probably cognate with the English word coroner and this regiment, or governance, was to some extent embodied in a contract and set of written rules, also referred to as the colonels regiment or standing regulation. By extension, the group of companies subject to a colonels regiment came to be referred to as his regiment as well, the position, however, was primarily contractual and it became progressively more of a functionless sinecure. By the late 19th century, colonel was a military rank though still held typically by an officer in command of a regiment or equivalent unit. As European military influence expanded throughout the world, the rank of colonel became adopted by every nation
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Colt .45 (TV series)
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Colt.45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. The half-hour program is based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name. Colt.45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Colt.45 also featured fictionalizations of actual historical characters including Edwin Booth, Sam Bass, Billy the Kid, Lew Wallace, Judge Roy Bean, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ned Buntline, and Calamity Jane. During this period of time, Colt.45 was one of several ABC/WB western productions, along with Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Lawman, Maverick, various series leads occasionally did crossover episodes on some of the other WB programs. In 1958, series star Wayde Preston left the series because he claimed he was made to do stunts that required a stunt man, Preston was also reportedly unhappy with the shows low budget which caused other problems. Because of Prestons departure, producers were forced to air repeats of the series along with a few new episodes to complete the 1958-1959 season, in 1959, Donald May assumed the lead role as Sam Colt, Jr. the cousin of Christopher Colt. After leaving the series, Warner Bros. prevented Preston from obtaining other acting jobs and he eventually returned briefly to the series but was demoted to a co-starring role with May. Upon its debut in October 1957, Colt.45 was a ratings draw for ABC. It helped ABC win its timeslot against NBC and CBS, by season two, however, behind the scenes problems caused a dip in viewership. After series star Wayde Preston left the series due his dissatisfaction with working conditions, there were also problems with the shows sponsorship which changed repeatedly. According to author Alvin H. Marill, the choice to cast Donald May in the role after Prestons departure was not explained in the storyline. Wayde Preston eventually returned to the series but by then, ratings had dropped off, the final episode aired on September 27,1960. The Colt.45 opening theme music was composed by Hal Hopper with lyrics by Douglas Heyes, the TV show was adapted into a comic strip by Dan Spiegle, distributed by Dell Comics. Colt.45 at the Internet Movie Database Colt45 at epguides. com
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Wayde Preston
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Wayde Preston was an American actor cast from 1957 to 1960 in the lead role in 67 episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt.45. He is also known for his appearance in the role of an acclaimed 1959 episode entitled The Saga of Waco Williams of another ABC/WB western series. Born William Erksine Strange in Denver, Colorado, Preston was reared in Laramie in southern Wyoming by his parents, John. He had two sisters, Joan and Mary. In 1947 he graduated from Laramie High School, where he was active in football, track, the school band and he attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he studied pharmacy. He became a musician and played in many bands during the late 1940s. In 1950 Preston was drafted into the United States Army, trained in an artillery unit at Fort Bliss, Texas, Preston attained the rank of first lieutenant and fought in the Korean War. For a time, after his service, he was a park ranger at Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. In Colt.45 he played Christopher Colt, a government undercover agent who masquerades as a salesman traveling throughout the Old West. The series lasted until Preston, like James Garner and Clint Walker during the period, ran afoul of the Warner Brothers studio. Donald May replaced Preston in 1959 and 1960 in the role of Colts cousin, Sam Colt Jr. Preston also played the role of Christopher Colt in 1958 and 1959 in four episodes relating to The Canary Kid of the ABC/WB Sugarfoot series, starring Will Hutchins. Preston played some 20 roles in television and films between 1957-91, Preston played the role of Logan in another 1968 film, Wrath of God, he was then cast in 1969 as Marshal Johnny Silver in Death Knows No Time. Preston later appeared on episodes of NBCs Bonanza and ABCs Starsky and his last screen appearance was a supporting role in the 1990 film version of Captain America. Preston married the former Carol Ohmart on Thanksgiving Day in 1956, Preston died of colon cancer in 1992 at the age of 62 in Reno, Nevada. Wayde Preston at the Internet Movie Database
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Andrew Duggan
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Andrew Duggan was an American character actor of both film and television. Duggan was born in Franklin in Johnson County in south central Indiana, during World War II, he served in the United States Army 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl, Duggan developed a friendship with Broadway director Daniel Mann on a troopship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway in The Rose Tattoo, Gently Does It, Anniversary Waltz, Fragile Fox, Duggan appeared in some 70 films, including The Incredible Mr. Limpet with Don Knotts, and in more than 140 television programs between 1949 and 1987. He was the character in the Disney theme parks Carousel of Progress. Duggan also did voice-over work including voice-over for Ziebarts 1985 Clio Award-winning Friend of the Family television commercial, in 1957, Duggan played a villain in the first episode of NBCs Wagon Train, starring Ward Bond. In the opening episode, The Peacemaker or Judgment Day, Duggan plays Jim Rexford, Brown is cast as Dave, Duggan had a recurring role as General Ed Britt in the second and third seasons of the ABC war series, Twelve OClock High. In 1959, Duggan was contracted to Warner Bros. where he was cast in ABCs Bourbon Street Beat, in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph assumed ailing Roger Smiths position on the hit series 77 Sunset Strip. In 1962, Duggan starred in the 26-week ABC situation comedy, Room for One More, with co-stars Peggy McCay, Ronnie Dapo, and Tim Rooney, the series is about a couple with two children who adopt two others. During this time Duggan guest starred in several Warner Bros, television series and appeared in several Warner Bros. films, including The Chapman Report and Merrills Marauders and the television pilot FBI Code 98. He also provide narration for several Warner Bros. film trailers, Duggan guest starred in numerous television series in the 1960s, including the western Tombstone Territory in the episode The Epitaph. He appeared as a criminal trying to gain amnesty in the 1962 episode Sunday of the ABC/WB series, Lawman. In 1963, he guest starred on the short-lived ABC/WB western series and he played the over-protective Police Chief Dixon in the 1963 spring break film Palm Springs Weekend, in which he attempts to prevent his daughter from seeing student Jim Munroe. In 1965, he appeared on David Janssens ABC series, The Fugitive, Duggan had recurring roles on CBSs 90-minute western, Cimarron Strip, and on ABCs The Great Adventure. He had roles in the 1964 film, Seven Days in May, and played the U. S. President, Duggan was cast in a 1964 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled The McGregor Affair. In this segment, he portrays a man who finally determines a way to get rid of his wife, only to later regret what he had done. In 1966 he played Father Michael in The Eighth Day an episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre. Also, in 1966, Duggan appeared on F Troop as Major Chester Winster, in the episode, The New I. G. Wayne Maunder portrayed the son, Scott Lancer
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Bob Steele (actor)
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Bob Steele was an American actor. He was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family and his parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta Catherine Quinn. After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood, California, in the late 1910s, Bradbury actually directed John Wayne in more Westerns than any other director, albeit low-budget ones. By 1920, Robert Bradbury hired his son Bob and Bobs twin brother, Bill, as leads for a series of adventure movies titled The Adventures of Bob. Steeles career began to take off for good in 1927, when he was hired by production company Film Booking Offices of America to star in a series of Westerns, besides these he also made occasional appearances in science fiction films like Atomic Submarine and Giant from the Unknown. Steele also performed on television, including the role of Sergeant Granger in the episode, The Peacemaker, in 1957 of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series. In 1957, he was cast as Sam Shoulders in Bunch Quitter in another ABC/WB western series, Sugarfoot, Steele appeared as Kirby with Agnes Moorehead and Madlyn Rhue in the 1959 episode In Memoriam of another ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. He also appeared as Deputy Sam in four episodes of Hugh OBrians The Life, in 1959, he appeared with Mason Alan Dinehart, another Wyatt Earp alumnus, in the episode Half a Loaf of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. Steele appeared in six different episodes of the Walt Disneys Western television series Texas John Slaughter with Tom Tryon, on January 25,1960, Steele was cast as the frontier gunfighter Luke Short in an episode of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun. Barbara Stuart played the gambler Poker Alice in the same episode, in the middle 1960s, Steele was cast in a regular supporting role as Trooper Duffy in ABCs F Troop, which allowed him to show his comic talent. Trooper Duffy in the F Troop story line claimed to have been shoulder to shoulder with Davy Crockett at the Alamo, in real life, forty years before F Troop, Steele played a supporting role in his fathers 1926 film Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo. Bob Steele died on December 21,1988, from emphysema after a long illness and he was survived by his third wife of forty-nine years, Bertha Virginia Nash Tatum Steele. Steele is interred in the columbarium at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character Cowboy Bob in the Dennis The Menace comic strip. Bob Steele – A Biography on Search my Trash Bob Steele at the Internet Movie Database Bob Steele at AllMovie
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Charles Bronson
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Charles Bronson was an American film and television actor. He starred in such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic. He was often cast in the role of an officer, gunfighter. He had long collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, in 1965, he was featured as Major Wolenski in Battle of the Bulge. His father was a Lithuanian immigrant and his mother was an American of Lithuanian descent and his father, Valteris P. Bučinskis, hailed from the town of Druskininkai. Bronsons mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the mining town of Tamaqua. He learned to speak English when he was a teenager, before that, Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died, Young Charles went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine. He later said he earned one dollar for each ton of coal that he mined and he worked in the mine until he entered military service during World War II. His family was so poor that at one time, he said and he flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. After the end of World War II, Bronson worked at odd jobs until joining a theatrical group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later shared an apartment in New York City with Jack Klugman while both were aspiring to play on the stage, in 1950, he married and moved to Hollywood, where he enrolled in acting classes and began to find small roles. Bronsons first film role — an uncredited one — was as a sailor in Youre in the Navy Now in 1951, other early screen appearances were in Pat and Mike, Miss Sadie Thompson and House of Wax. In 1952, Bronson boxed in a ring with Roy Rogers in Rogers show Knockout and he appeared on an episode of The Red Skelton Show as a boxer in a skit with Skelton playing Cauliflower McPugg. He also had a part credited as Charles Buchinsky in a western named Riding Shotgun, in 1954, Bronson made a strong impact in Drum Beat as a murderous Modoc warrior, Captain Jack, who relishes wearing the tunics of soldiers he has killed. In 1957, Bronson was cast in the Western series Colt.45 as an outlaw named Danny Arnold in the episode Young Gun. He scored the lead in his own ABCs detective series Man with a Camera, in which he portrayed Mike Kovac, Bronson starred alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in a Twilight Zone episode. He appeared in five episodes of Richard Boones Have Gun – Will Travel, in 1958, he was cast in his first lead film role in Roger Cormans Machine-Gun Kelly, followed by the lead role in the World War II film When Hell Broke Loose later the same year
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Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and it took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the units of Walt Disney Studios. Animated films such as those by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are released under this brand. Pirates of the Caribbean series is the corporations most successful franchise, the studios predecessor was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926, in 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a studio in Burbank. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Song of the South. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The Walt Disney Productions in April 1983 incorporated its film division as Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls, David Hoberman was promoted to president of production, Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion pictures at Walt Disney Studios and was replaced as Disney President by David Vogel. Vogel added the position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, then was promoted in 1998 to head up all live action motion picture units as president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Pirates of the Caribbean launched a film series and made the ride into a franchise. After four Pirates sequels, the franchise took in more than $5.4 billion worldwide, so, the corporation was looking for addition of the ride adaptations. In 2010, Disney released Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of the 1951 animated film of the name that became the second $1 billion-grossing film in the studios history. The film began a trend of fantasy genre films being green-lit. With sister units Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm successfully targeting the male market, with the success of Maleficent and Cinderella, the studio announced a whole series of live-action adaptations of animated films as being in early stages. The Jungle Book cemented this trend with a global near billion-dollar box office, some adaptations are sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels
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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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Burl Ives
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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. He began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched his own show, The Wayfaring Stranger. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlins This Is the Army, in the 1960s, he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as A Little Bitty Tear and Funny Way of Laughing. Ives was born near Hunt City, a town in Jasper County, Illinois, near Newton, Illinois, to Levi Frank Ives. He had six siblings, Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn and his father was first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others. One day, Ives was singing in the garden with his mother and he invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad Barbara Allen, from 1927 to 1929, Ives attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College in Charleston, Illinois, where he played football. During his junior year, he was sitting in English class, listening to a lecture on Beowulf, as he walked out of the door, the professor made a snide remark, and Ives slammed the door behind him, shattering the window in the door. Sixty years later, the school named a building after its most famous dropout, Ives was also involved in Freemasonry from 1927 onward. On July 23,1929, in Richmond, Indiana, Ives made a recording of Behind the Clouds for the Starr Piano Companys Gennett label. In later years, Ives did not recall having made the record, Ives traveled about the U. S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo. He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing Foggy Dew, around 1931, he began performing on WBOW radio in Terre Haute, Indiana. He also went back to school, attending classes at Indiana State Teachers College, in 1933, Ives also attended the Juilliard School in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1938 with a role in Rodgers and Hart’s hit musical. In 1937, he met and befriended actor Eddie Albert, the two lived together for a while in Hollywood. In 1940, Ives began his own show, titled The Wayfaring Stranger after one of his ballads. Over the next decade, he popularized several traditional songs, such as Foggy Dew, The Blue Tail Fly. He was also associated with the Almanac Singers, a group which at different times included Woody Guthrie, Will Geer, Millard Lampell
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Richard Egan (actor)
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Richard Egan was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan, born and raised in San Francisco, California, Egan graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory. He served in the United States Army as an instructor during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, he studied and taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, having studied theatre, he took a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film The Story of Molly X. This start would lead to his signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox where his talent, rugged physique, and good looks made him a favorite and respected leading man. In 1956, he starred as Elvis Presleys older brother in Presleys first film, Love Me Tender and he co-starred with Jane Russell in two of her last films, Underwater. and The Revolt of Mamie Stover. In 1960, Egan appeared with Jane Wyman and Hayley Mills in Disneys Pollyanna and he also starred as Ahasuerus in Esther and the King. Egan was Rod Serlings first choice to narrate The Twilight Zone, however, contractual issues got in the way, and Serling narrated instead, rather than select any other actor than his first choice. During the decade of the 1960s, Egan worked extensively in television, starring in the NBC western dramatic series, Empire, in the shortened second season, the program was renamed Redigo after Egans character, ranch manager Jim Redigo. After his series ended, he made guest appearances on television shows. In 1982 he joined the cast for the new daytime television political drama Capitol, Egan met his wife, the former Patricia Hardy, in 1956. The couple married in June 1958 and remained together for almost thirty years until his death and they had five children, including son Rich Egan, the founder of Vagrant Records, daughter Maureen Egan, a writer and director, as well as Patricia, Kathleen, and Colleen. Egan was respected within the community for having helped a number of young actors get their first break in the film industry. One of these actors was Ryan ONeal. He worked out at the gym as Egan, who got him credited work in four episodes of Empire. Richard Egan died in Los Angeles, California, on July 20,1987, of prostate cancer and he is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California
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New Mexico
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New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6,1912 and it is usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is fifth by area, the 36th-most populous, inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before European exploration, New Mexico was colonized by the Spanish in 1598 Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Later, it was part of independent Mexico before becoming a U. S. territory and eventually a U. S. state as a result of the Mexican–American War. Among U. S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, the major Native American nations in the state are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples. The demography and culture of the state are shaped by these strong Hispanic and Native American influences and its scarlet and gold colors are taken from the royal standards of Spain, along with the ancient sun symbol of the Zia, a Pueblo-related tribe. New Mexico, or Nuevo México in Spanish, is incorrectly believed to have taken its name from the nation of Mexico. The name simply stuck, even though the area had no connection to Mexico or the Mexica Indian tribes, Mexico, formerly a part of New Spain, adopted its name centuries later in 1821, after winning independence from Spanish rule. New Mexico was a part of the independent Mexican Empire and Federal Republic of Mexico for 27 years,1821 through 1848, New Mexico and Mexico developed as neighboring Spanish-speaking communities under Spanish rule, with relatively independent histories. The states total area is 121,412 square miles, the eastern border of New Mexico lies along 103° W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles west of 103° W longitude with Texas. On the southern border, Texas makes up the eastern two-thirds, while the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora make up the western third, the western border with Arizona runs along the 109°03 W longitude. The southwestern corner of the state is known as the Bootheel, the 37° N latitude parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. The states New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the corner of New Mexico. New Mexico, although a state, has very little water. Its surface water area is about 250 square miles, the New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexicos arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, run roughly north-south along the east side of the Rio Grande in the rugged, pastoral north. The most important of New Mexicos rivers are the Rio Grande, Pecos, Canadian, San Juan, the Rio Grande is tied for the fourth-longest river in the United States. Tourists visiting these sites bring significant money to the state, other areas of geographical and scenic interest include Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument and the Gila Wilderness in the southwest of the state
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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s
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Mexico
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Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a federal republic in the southern half of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States, to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea, and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area, Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city. Other metropolises include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana, pre-Columbian Mexico was home to many advanced Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec before first contact with Europeans. In 1521, the Spanish Empire conquered and colonized the territory from its base in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Three centuries later, this territory became Mexico following recognition in 1821 after the colonys Mexican War of Independence. The tumultuous post-independence period was characterized by instability and many political changes. The Mexican–American War led to the cession of the extensive northern borderlands, one-third of its territory. The Pastry War, the Franco-Mexican War, a civil war, the dictatorship was overthrown in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, which culminated with the promulgation of the 1917 Constitution and the emergence of the countrys current political system. Mexico has the fifteenth largest nominal GDP and the eleventh largest by purchasing power parity, the Mexican economy is strongly linked to those of its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, especially the United States. Mexico was the first Latin American member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and it is classified as an upper-middle income country by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country by several analysts. By 2050, Mexico could become the fifth or seventh largest economy. The country is considered both a power and middle power, and is often identified as an emerging global power. Due to its culture and history, Mexico ranks first in the Americas. Mexico is a country, ranking fourth in the world by biodiversity. In 2015 it was the 9th most visited country in the world, Mexico is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G8+5, the G20, the Uniting for Consensus and the Pacific Alliance. Mēxihco is the Nahuatl term for the heartland of the Aztec Empire, namely, the Valley of Mexico, and its people, the Mexica and this became the future State of Mexico as a division of New Spain prior to independence. It is generally considered to be a toponym for the valley became the primary ethnonym for the Aztec Triple Alliance as a result. After New Spain won independence from Spain, representatives decided to name the new country after its capital and this was founded in 1524 on top of the ancient Mexica capital of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
