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Westwood, Los Angeles
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Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2000 census found the forty-seven thousand people living in the neighborhood were generally young and moderately diverse ethnically, with a generally high level of income and education. The neighborhood was developed after 1919, with a new campus of the University of California opened in 1926, other attractions besides the UCLA campus include Westwood Village, with its historic motion picture theaters, restaurants and shopping, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Hammer Museum. Holmby Hills is considered one of the wealthiest residential areas in Los Angeles, a Mormon temple is also prominent. There are several schools and one middle school in the neighborhood. The 2010 U. S. census counted 47,916 residents in the 3. 68-square-mile Westwood neighborhood—or 13,036 people per square mile, in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 52,041. The median age for residents was 27, considered young for the city, the neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically, with a high percentage of Asians and of whites. The breakdown was whites,62. 9%, Asians,23. 1%, Latinos,7. 0%, blacks,2. 0%, and others,4. 9%. Iran and Taiwan were the most common places of birth for the 31. 3% of the residents who were born abroad—about the same percentage as in the city at large, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $68,716, a high figure for Los Angeles. The percentages of households that earned $125,000 yearly and higher or that earned $20,000 or less were high for Los Angeles County, the average household size of two people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 64. 1% of the stock and house- or apartment owners held 35. 9%. The percentages of never-married men and women were among the countys highest, in 2000 there were 309 families headed by single parents, a low percentage for the city. Five percent of the population had served in the military, a low figure for both the city and the county, the southern portion of Holmby Hills is also part of the Westwood district. Upon Arthur Letts death, his son-in-law, Harold Janss, vice president of Janss Investment Company, inherited the land and developed the area and started advertising for new homes in 1922. The tract comprises approximately 1000 residential and business lots, situated west of the Los Angeles Country Club on Santa Monica Boulevard, the selection of a new campus in the Westwood hills was announced on March 21,1925. The owners of the estate, the Janss brothers, agreed to sell the property for approximately $1 million, municipal bond measures passed by Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Venice provided for that amount. Proposition 10, a bond measure passed that year, provided $3 million for new campus construction. Thus the predecessor of the University of California, Los Angeles, was established in Westwood and her killer, Durrell DeWitt Collins,23, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 27 years to life in prison
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Service Corporation International
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Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico. Robert L. Waltrip, a funeral director who grew up in his family’s funeral business. SCI began as a network of funeral homes and cemeteries in the Houston area. SCI, Alderwoods Group and Stewart Enterprises emerged from this period as the three largest companies in the industry. On December 31,1999, SCI owned and operated 3,823 funeral service locations,525 cemeteries,198 crematoria, in 1999, SCI also introduced Dignity Memorial, the first transcontinental brand of death care services and products in North America. By unifying its network of homes and cemeteries under one brand name. In 2000, poor conditions forced SCI to reevaluate operations. While foreign operations had shown promise, nearly 70 percent of SCI’s revenue was generated by operations in the United States. The company decided to divest many of its businesses, in addition to many North American funeral homes and cemeteries. The UK arm now operates as Dignity plc and it also changed business and sales processes, tightened internal controls following the protocols, strengthened corporate governance standards, and established a new training and development system. For its shareholders, SCI returned value through more than $335 million in share repurchases, and it resumed payment of a quarterly dividend in early 2005. In 2006, SCI merged with Alderwoods Group, its nearest competitor in terms of size, the Federal Trade Commission blocked the merger, citing concerns over consumer choice. After agreeing to divest funeral home and cemetery locations in several markets and end licensing agreements with other funeral homes, by 2007, the integration of Alderwoodss locations and operations was complete. In 2009 SCI put in a bid to purchase Keystone North America for $208 million, the purchase was completed in 2010 and added about 200 locations. In May 2013 SCI signed a $1.4 billion deal to purchase Stewart Enterprises, SCI operates the following brands in the United States and Canada, Dignity Memorial, Founded in 1999, provides services in 41 states and seven Canadian provinces. Dignity Planning, Dignity Planning provides funeral planning and arrangements through Dignity Memorial North America locations, Advantage, Advantage provides basic funeral services and products. Funeraria del Angel, Funeraria del Angel provides specialized services for Hispanic customers, Memorial Plan, Memorial Plan currently manages six funeral homes and five cemeteries in South Florida
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
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The Historic-Cultural Monument process has its origin in the Historic Buildings Committee formed in 1958 by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects. On April 30,1962, a historic preservation ordinance proposed by the AIA committee was passed. The original Cultural Heritage Board was formed in the summer of 1962, consisting of William Woollett, FAIA, Bonnie H. Riedel, Carl S. Dentzel, Senaida Sullivan and Edith Gibbs Vaughan. The board met for the first time in August 1962, at a time when the owner of the historic Leonis Adobe was attempting to demolish the structure, in its first day of official business, the board designated the Leonis Adobe and four other sites as Historic-Cultural Monuments. The designation of a property as a Historic-Cultural Monument does not prevent demolition or alteration, however, the designation requires permits for demolition or substantial alteration to be presented to the commission. The commission has the power to delay the demolition of a property for up to one year. In the commissions first decade of operation, it designated 101 properties as Historic-Cultural Monuments, by March 2010, there were 979 designated properties. A. Historic-Cultural Monuments website — with ever-updated LAHCM List via PDF link, official Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources website — Homepage Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission website Designated LAHCM Landmarks by Neighborhood — L. A. Bariscale. Bariscales Flickr Photostream — Big Orange Flickr Gallery of L. A. H. C. Monuments
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Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic dumb blonde characters, she one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s. Although she was an actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes, while working in a factory in 1944 as part of the war effort, she was introduced to a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career. The work led to short-lived film contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, after a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1951. Over the next two years, she became an actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career. Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project, when the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1954, she named it Marilyn Monroe Productions. She dedicated 1955 to building her company and began studying acting at the Actors Studio. In late 1955, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop and acting in the first independent production of MMP, The Prince and her last completed film was the drama The Misfits. Monroes troubled private life received much attention and she struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. She had two highly publicized marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, both of which ended in divorce and she died at the age of 36 on August 5,1962, from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroes death was ruled a suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1,1926, Gladys, the daughter of two poor Midwestern migrants to California, was a flapper and worked as a film negative cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. When she was fifteen, Gladys married a man nine years her senior, John Newton Baker and she filed for divorce in 1921, and Baker took the children with him to his native Kentucky
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Joe DiMaggio
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Joseph Paul Joe DiMaggio, nicknamed Joltin Joe and The Yankee Clipper, was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons, during his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in home runs. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and his brothers Vince and Dom also were major league center fielders. DiMaggio was born on November 25,1914 in Martinez, California and he was named Paolo after his father Giuseppes favorite saint, Saint Paul. The family moved to nearby San Francisco when Joe was a year old, Giuseppe was a fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggios before him. After being processed on Ellis Island, Giuseppe worked his way across America, eventually settling near Rosalias father in Pittsburg, California, on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area. After four years, he earned money to send to Italy for Rosalia and their daughter. Giuseppe hoped that his five sons would become fishermen, DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his fathers boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him. Giuseppe called him lazy and good-for-nothing, DiMaggio did not finish his education at Galileo High School and instead worked odd jobs including hawking newspapers, stacking boxes at a warehouse and working at an orange juice plant. DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince DiMaggio, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, Joe DiMaggio made his professional debut on October 1,1932. From May 27 to July 25,1933, he hit safely in 61 consecutive games, a PCL-record, Baseball didnt really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak, he said. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping, in 1934, DiMaggio suffered a career-threatening knee injury when he tore ligaments while stepping out of a jitney. Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees, convinced that the injury would heal, after DiMaggio passed a physical examination in November, the Yankees purchased his contract for $50,000 and five players. He remained with the Seals for the 1935 season and batted.398 with 154 runs batted in and 34 home runs and his team won the 1935 PCL title, and DiMaggio was named the leagues Most Valuable Player. DiMaggio made his league debut on May 3,1936. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, in total, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine titles in 13 years
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Eddie Albert
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Edward Albert Heimberger, known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma. And the sadistic prison warden in 1974s The Longest Yard and he starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest. Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22,1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor and his year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage, when he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as the enemy by his classmates and he studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake graduated in the same class, finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. When he graduated, he embarked on a business career, however, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a performer, an insurance salesman. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger and he moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the shows end, he was offered a contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat and he had lead roles in Room Service and The Boys from Syracuse. Performing regularly on television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. In 1938, he made his debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart
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Margo (actress)
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Margo, sometimes known as Margo Albert, was a Mexican-American film actress and dancer. She appeared in many American motion pictures and television productions, mostly in minor roles and her more substantial roles include Lost Horizon, The Leopard Man, Viva Zapata. and Ill Cry Tomorrow. Her final role was as murderess Serafina in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y ODonnell in Mexico City, she was related by marriage to band leader Xavier Cugat, as niece of his first marriage to Carmen Castillo. She became a naturalized United States citizen, on November 9,1942 and her first husband was the actor Francis Lederer, from 1937 until their divorce in 1940. She married, secondly, to actor Eddie Albert on December 5,1945 and their son Edward Albert became an actor, and their adopted daughter Maria was her fathers business manager. This filmography of theatrical features is believed to be complete,1955, Ill Cry Tomorrow 1958, From Hell to Texas 1962, Whos Got the Action. 1970, Diary of a Mad Housewife Margo was well known in Hollywood for her political leanings. She was reportedly acquainted with members of the American Communist Party. In 1950, her name and that of her husband were published in Red Channels, Alberts son spoke of his parents blacklisting in an interview published in December 1972, crediting Alberts service during World War II with ultimately saving his career. My mom was blacklisted for appearing at a rally, she was branded a Communist, was spat upon in the streets. And my dad found himself unemployable at several studios, just when his career was gathering momentum. During the second World War, dad joined the Navy and saw action at Tarawa, but he never got as far as he should have gotten. Eddie Alberts career survived the blacklist but Margo had difficulty finding work, Hollywood blacklist Margo at the Internet Movie Database Margo at Find a Grave Margo Albert family information
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Claud Allister
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Claud Allister was an English actor with an extensive film career in Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 70 films between 1929-1955. He was born William Claud Michael Palmer, in London, England, in 1929 he made his film début in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Allister died 26 July 1970 at Santa Barbara, California, Claud Allister at the Internet Movie Database Claud Allister at the Internet Broadway Database Claud Allister at AllMovie Claud Allister at Find a Grave
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The Andrews Sisters
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The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters, contralto LaVerne Sophia, soprano Maxene Angelyn, and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie Patty, throughout their long career, the sisters sold well over 75 million records. Their 1941 hit Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy can be considered an example of rhythm. The Andrews Sisters harmonies and songs are still today, and have been covered by entertainers such as Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, Pentatonix. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998, writing for Bloomberg, Mark Schoifet said the sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century. They are still widely acclaimed today for their famous close harmonies, the sisters were born to Peter Andreos and Olga, their father was Greek and their mother Norwegian-American of the Lutheran faith. Following the collapse of their fathers Minneapolis restaurant, the sisters went on the road to support the family and they started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the Boswell Sisters who were popular in the 1930s. They followed this success with a string of best-selling records over the two years and they became a household name by the 1940s. Instrumental to the success over the years were their parents, their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen, and Jack and David Kapp. During World War II they entertained the Allied forces extensively in America, Africa and Italy, visiting Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard bases, war zones, hospitals, and munitions factories. They encouraged U. S. citizens to war bonds with their rendition of Irving Berlins song Any Bonds Today. While touring, they often treated three random servicemen to dinner when they were dining out. I. An ad in the 1951 Radio Annual showed photos of the Andrews as children, as singers, and as old women in the then-future year of 1975, sadly. In the 1950s, Patty Andrews decided to break away from the act to be a soloist and she had married the trios pianist, Walter Weschler, who then became the groups manager and demanded more money for Patty. Patty attributed the breakup to the deaths of their parents, We had been nearly all our lives. Then in one year our dream world ended and our mother died and then our father. All three of us were upset, and we were at each others throats all the time, in 1951, they recorded The Windmill Song which is an adaptation of the French song Maître Pierre written in 1948 by Henri Betti and Jacques Plante. The English lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish, the Andrews Sisters formally broke up in 1953
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Ken Annakin
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Kenneth Cooper Ken Annakin, OBE was a prolific English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and his career peaked in the 1960s with large-scale adventure films and in all he directed nearly 50 pictures. Annakin was born in and grew up in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire where he attended the grammar school. He began his career in films following an early experience making documentaries. Injured in the Liverpool Blitz, he joined the RAF Film Unit, where he worked as camera operator on films for the Ministry of Information. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation, the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to direct three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England. These highly successful films starred Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Diana Dors, in 1979, Ken Annakin left Britain and moved to Los Angeles. Annakins last completed film was The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, the 1992 project Genghis Khan was not completed. In 2001 he released a highly regarded autobiography So You Wanna Be A Director, considered a classic among directors autobiographies it has forewords by both Richard Attenborough and Mike Leigh. In their review, the Directors Guild of America stated So You Wanna Be a Director, is an entertaining autobiography through which seasoned directors and aspirants alike can enjoy and learn from a man with such a versatile and long-lived career. Annakin was made one of the few Disney Legends by the Walt Disney Company in March 2002 and he is only the second film director to be so honoured. He was also awarded an OBE the same year for services to the film industry and he died on 22 April 2009, the same day as Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer. He was survived by his wife of 50 years, the former Pauline Carter and their daughter Brenda, a daughter from a previous marriage predeceased him. Claims were made that George Lucas took the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars from his friend and fellow director, however
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Eve Arden
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Eve Arden was an American film, stage, and television actress, and comedian. She performed in leading and supporting roles over nearly six decades, Arden would go on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mildred Pierce. Lucille, a milliner, divorced Charles over his gambling, although not Roman Catholic, young Eunice was sent to a Dominican convent school near Modesto, and later attended Tamalpais High School, a public high school in Mill Valley until age 16. After leaving school, she joined a theater company. She made her debut under her real name in the backstage musical Song of Love, as a wisecracking, homewrecking showgirl who becomes a rival to the films star. The film was one of Columbia Pictures earliest successes, in 1933, she relocated to New York City, where she appeared in multiple Broadway stage productions in supporting parts. In 1934, she was cast in that years Ziegfeld Follies revue and this was the first role in which she was credited as Eve Arden. Told to change her name for the show, she looked at her cosmetics and stole my first name from Evening in Paris and the second from Elizabeth Arden. Between 1934 and 1941, she would appear in Broadway productions of Parade, Very Warm for May, Two for the Show, and Lets Face It. Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures and her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, witty supporting character gained Arden considerable notice and was to be a template for many of Ardens future roles. In 1938, she appeared in a part in the comedy Having Wonderful Time, starring Ginger Rogers. This was followed by roles in the crime film The Forgotten Woman, and the comedy At the Circus, opposite Groucho Marx, in 1940, she appeared opposite Clark Gable in Comrade X, followed by the drama Manpower, opposite Marlene Dietrich. She also appeared in a part in the Red Skelton comedy Whistling in the Dark. In 1946, exhibitors voted her the sixth-most promising star of tomorrow and she became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978s Grease and 1982s Grease 2. Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a version of the program from 1952 to 1956. Ardens character clashed with the principal, Osgood Conklin. Except for Chandler, the radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna, Robert Rockwell, Gloria McMillan. She won a poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top-ranking comedienne of 1948–1949
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Jack Arnold (director)
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Jack Arnold was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films. His most notable films are It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarantula, Jack Arnold was born on a kitchen table in New Haven, Connecticut, to Russian immigrant parents. As a child he read a lot of fiction, which laid the foundations for his genre films of the 1950s. He hoped to become an actor and in his late teens he enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating he worked as a dancer and in 1935 began getting roles in Broadway plays. He was acting in My Sister Eileen when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, while Arnold intended to become a pilot, a shortage of planes meant he was temporarily placed in the Signal Corps, where he took a crash course in cinematography. He then became a cameraman and learned the techniques of filmmaking by assisting Robert Flaherty on various military films, after eight months with Flaherty he became a pilot in the Air Corps. While stationed at Truax Airfield at New Rochelle, New York, he met Betty, at the wars end and Arnolds term of service ended, he formed a partnership with an air squadron buddy Lee Goodman to form a film production company. Their new company, called Promotional Films Company, made fundraising films for various non-profit organizations and he also continued acting on stage during this period, in plays including a revival of The Front Page, and played opposite Bela Lugosi and Elaine Stritch in Three Indelicate Ladies. By 1950, after his films had received more exposure, he was commissioned to produce and direct With These Hands. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Arnold directed a number of 1950s science fiction films. The Incredible Shrinking Man is considered his masterpiece, a film with few equals in intelligence and sophistication. While all the display a sheer virtuosity of style and clarity of vision. Arnolds main collaborator at Universal Studios was producer William Alland, revenge of the Creature was Clint Eastwoods debut film. He later worked as the director of The Mouse That Roared, Arnold began his television career in 1955 with several episodes of Science Fiction Theater. He went on to direct the television series Perry Mason. Arnold died of arteriosclerosis in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 75, later that year, the UCLA Film Archive held a tribute Jack Arnold, The Incredible Thinking Man film festival which screened a number of his films. The Archive also produced and screened a bio-documentary about his life, osteried, Peter, Die Filme von Jack Arnold
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Robert Armstrong (actor)
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Robert Armstrong was an American film actor remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He uttered the famous quote, Twas beauty killed the beast. Born Robert William Armstrong in Saginaw, Michigan, lived in Bay City, Michigan until about 1902 and moved to Seattle, Armstrong studied to be a lawyer but gave it up to manage his uncles touring companies. He attended the University of Washington where he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity, in his spare time he wrote plays, which eventually led to him appearing in one of them when it was produced. Armstrong served in the United States Army in World War I, in 1926 he went to London and appeared for a season on the British stage. Armstrongs silver screen began in 1927 when he appeared in Pathés silent drama The Main Event. Armstrong appeared in 127 films between 1927 and 1964, very prolific in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he made nine movies in 1928 alone and he is best known for his role as director Carl Denham in King Kong. Months later in 1933, he starred as Carl Denham again in the sequel, Son of Kong and he resembled King Kong producer and adventurer Merian C. Cooper, and Cooper used him in films as more or less a version of himself. The Most Dangerous Game was filmed at night on the same sets as King Kong. In 1937 Armstrong starred in With Words and Music released by Grand National Films Inc and he also worked throughout the 1930s and 1940s for many film studios. Prior to World War II, in the early 1940s, Universal Pictures released Enemy Agent, in the film, Armstrong co-starred with Helen Vinson, Richard Cromwell and Jack La Rue. Later, in 1942, he played again opposite Cromwell in Baby Face Morgan, later in that decade, Armstrong played another Carl Denham-like leading character role as Max OHara in 1949s Mighty Joe Young. This film was yet another stop-motion animation giant gorilla fantasy, made by the same King Kong team of Merian C. Cooper, in the 1950s Armstrong appeared as Sheriff Andy Anderson on Rod Camerons syndicated western-themed television series, State Trooper. Cameron played the role of Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada Department of Public Safety and he and King Kongs co-producer, Merian C. Cooper, died within sixteen hours of each other, Robert Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database Robert Armstrong at AllMovie Robert Armstrong at the Internet Broadway Database Robert Armstrong at Virtual History
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James T. Aubrey
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James Thomas Aubrey Jr. was an American television and film executive. President of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, he put some of televisions most enduring series on the air, including Gilligans Island, under Aubrey, CBS dominated American television the way General Motors and General Electric dominated their industries. The New York Times Magazine in 1964 called Aubrey a master of programming whose divinations led to successes that are breathtaking, Aubrey replaced CBS Television president Louis Cowan, who was slowly dismissed after the quiz show scandals. The circumstances rivaled the best of CBS adventure or mystery shows, declared The New York Times in its story on his firing. He earned the nickname Smiling Cobra for his brutal decision-making ways, Aubrey governed CBS with a firm grip, and it did not go unnoticed. He was suddenly dismissed in February 1965, Aubrey offered no explanation following his dismissal, nor did CBS President Frank Stanton or Board Chairman William Paley. In 1973, Aubrey resigned from MGM, declaring his job was done, Hollywood executive Sherry Lansing, a close friend of Aubreys for two decades, told the Los Angeles Times in 1986, Jim is different. He does his own dirty work, Jim is one of those people who are willing to say, I didnt like your movie. Directness is disarming to people who are used to sugar-coating and its tough for people who need approval to see somebody who doesnt. Myths and legends begin to surround that kind of person and he grew up in the affluent Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and attended Lake Forest Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and Princeton University. While at Princeton all four brothers were members of the Tiger Inn eating club and my father insisted on accomplishment, Aubrey recalled in 1986. In college, Aubrey was a star on the football team and he graduated in 1941 with honors in English and entered the United States Army Air Forces. During his service in World War II, Aubrey rose to the rank of major and taught military flying to actor James Stewart, while stationed in southern California, he met Phyllis Thaxter, an actress signed to MGM, whom he married in November 1944. Thaxters first role was as Ted Lawsons wife in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and they had two children, Susan Schuyler Skye Aubrey and James Watson Aubrey. The marriage ended in divorce in 1962, Aubrey was 6-foot 2-inch with an incandescent smile with unrevealing polar blue eyes, said The New York Times Magazine in 1964. The next year Life Magazine described him as youthful, handsome, brainy, with an incandescent smile, a quiet, somewhat salty wit and and he was always fastidiously turned out, from his Jerry the Barber haircut to his CBS-eye cuff links. One producer said, Aubrey is one of the most insatiably curious guys I know, after Aubrey was discharged from the Air Force, he stayed in southern California, before his marriage, he intended to return to Chicago. In Los Angeles, he sold advertising for the Street & Smith and his first broadcasting job was as a salesman at the CBS radio station in Los Angeles, KNX, and soon went to the networks new television station, KNXT
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Hy Averback
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Hyman Jack Hy Averback, was an American radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director. Born in Minneapolis, Averback moved to California with his family when he was 9, Averback graduated from the Edward Clark Academy Theater in 1938 and eventually got a job announcing at KMPC Beverly Hills before World War II. After his discharge, his big break came when he was hired to announce the Jack Paar radio show, Averback was also an actor, appearing a number of times on the Jack Benny radio show, beginning in January 1948. In 1952, Averback starred in Secret Mission, a program dealing with factual stories of escape from behind the Iron Curtain on AFRS. Doing comedy on television, he appeared on The Saturday Night Revue, Tonight. He was a regular as Mr. Romero on the Eve Arden sitcom Our Miss Brooks and also appeared in CBSs I Love Lucy and other 1950s comedies. He directed The Real McCoys, the Walter Brennan sitcom that was created and produced by Irving Pincus and aired on ABC, later, Averback shared directing duties with Richard Crenna on The Real McCoys. Crenna had also been a cast member with Averback on Our Miss Brooks, Averback also directed for The Dick Powell Show, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. The Flying Nun, Columbo, Suitable for Framing, McCloud, M*A*S*H, Needles and Pins, Quark, Matt Houston, The Four Seasons, for CBS, he produced Mrs. G. Goes to College in the 1961-1962 season. He co-produced the popular 1960s sitcom F Troop and supplied the voice over the loudspeaker heard on the television series M*A*S*H and his actual recording from a Bob Hope show was used in M*A*S*H episode 63, Bombed, from season 3 where he announces himself as Hopes announcer. Averback co-narrated a 62-minute sex educational film, The Story of Life and it featured live action as well as animation by former Walt Disney artists Lester Novros and Robert Moore. Film credits include directing Chamber of Horrors, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out, toklas, The Great Bank Robbery, and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came as well as the reunion TV-movie The New Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly. Averback died on October 14,1997, armed Forces Radio Service Hy Averback at the Internet Movie Database
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Lew Ayres
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Lewis Frederick Ayres III was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years. He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film classic All Quiet on the Western Front and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Johnny Belinda. Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Irma Bevernick and Louis Ayres, Louis, an amateur musician and court reporter, remarried soon afterwards. As a teen, Lew and his mother moved with his step-father, William Gilmore, leaving high school before graduating, he started a small band which traveled to Mexico. He returned months later to pursue a career, but continued working full-time as a musician. He played banjo and guitar for big bands, including the Henry Halstead Orchestra and he recorded one of the earliest Vitaphone movie shorts called Carnival Night in Paris. Ayres wrote, I was a member of Henry Halsteads orchestra in 1927 at the Mission Beach Ballroom in San Diego and my instruments were tenor banjo, long-neck banjo and guitar. After a hiatus, I rejoined Mr. Halstead with a new group, including Phil Harris, on New Years Eve the same year for the night of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. He left a tour to pursue a career as an actor full-time. Ayres was discovered at a club by talent agent Ivan Kahn. He made a number of mostly forgotten B movies for Universal and he moved to Paramount Pictures before finally being signed to MGM in 1938. In 1938, he was loaned from Paramount to play the role of Ned in Holiday, the role earned him considerable critical attention, including interest from MGM to put him under contract specifically for the role of Dr. James Kildare in an upcoming film series. His final film as Dr. Kildare, Born to Be Bad, was re-edited after he was drafted and this stance almost destroyed Ayres reputation until it was revealed that he had served honorably as a non-combatant medic from 1942 to 1946. He returned to acting in the films The Dark Mirror and The Unfaithful with Ann Sheridan, in 1948, his role in Johnny Belinda earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film was nominated for 13 Oscars, but only won Best Actress for Jane Wyman, Ayres lost that year to Laurence Oliviers portrayal of the title role in Hamlet, which also won Best Picture. Ayres gradually moved to television, appearing in anthology series in guest roles. In the summer of 1958, he hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice and he was offered the part of Dr. Kildare in an NBC series. But his prescient request that the show have no cigarette advertising led to the offer being withdrawn, and the part going, in 1961, to Richard Chamberlain
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Ray Bradbury
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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author and screenwriter. While most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, he wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel Dandelion Wine or the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows. Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitzer Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick, many of his works were adapted to comic book, television and film formats. On his death in 2012, The New York Times called Bradbury the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream. Bradbury was born on August 22,1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and he was given the middle name Douglas, after the actor Douglas Fairbanks. Bradbury was related to the American Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding and was descended from Mary Bradbury, Bradbury was surrounded by an extended family during his early childhood and formative years in Waukegan, Illinois. An aunt read him stories when he was a child. This period provided foundations for both the author and his stories, in Bradburys works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes Green Town, Illinois. The family arrived with only US$40, which paid for rent and this meant that they could stay, however, and Bradbury—who was in love with Hollywood—was ecstatic. Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School and was active in the drama club and he often roller-skated through Hollywood in hopes of meeting celebrities. Among the creative and talented people Bradbury met this way were special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, throughout his youth, Bradbury was an avid reader and writer and knew at a young age that he was going into one of the arts. Bradbury began writing his own stories at age eleven, during the Great Depression — sometimes writing on the available paper, butcher paper. In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, at twelve, Bradbury began writing traditional horror stories and said he tried to imitate Poe until he was about eighteen. In addition to comics, he loved Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes, the Warlord of Mars impressed him so much that at the age of twelve he wrote his own sequel. The young Bradbury was also a cartoonist and loved to illustrate and he wrote about Tarzan and drew his own Sunday panels. He listened to the radio show Chandu the Magician, and when the show went off the air every night he would sit, as a teen in Beverly Hills, he often visited his mentor and friend, science fiction writer Bob Olsen, sharing ideas and maintaining contact. In 1936, at a bookstore in Hollywood, Bradbury discovered a handbill promoting meetings of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. Excited to find there were others sharing his interest, Bradbury joined a weekly Thursday-night conclave at age sixteen, at age 17, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C
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Henny Backus
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Henny Backus was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s whose stage credits include Orson Welless Horse Eats Hat. She was the wife of actor and comedian Jim, Henrietta Kaye was born in Brooklyn March 21,1911. She studied sculpture at Cooper Union, but she preferred working in the theater, woking as Henriette Kaye, she was a member of the Federal Theatre Project. Her husband, Nat Karson, designed the sets and costumes, Kaye married actor and comedian Jim Backus in 1943. They co-starred in the 1960s television series, Blondie, and she appeared with her husband in the TV sitcom, Gilligans Island and she also acted with her husband in a Season 5 episode of The Love Boat. Henny and Jim Backus also co-wrote several humorous books, including What Are You Doing After the Orgy, only When I Laugh, Backus Strikes Back and Forgive Us Our Digressions. Henny wrote Care for the Caretaker, documenting her husbands battle with Parkinsons Disease, in 1989, Jim Backus died from complications of pneumonia. Upon her own death at age 93, following a series of strokes, Henny Backus at the Internet Movie Database Henrietta Kaye at the Internet Broadway Database Henriette Kaye at the Internet Broadway Database Henny Backus at Find a Grave
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Jim Backus
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James Gilmore Jim Backus was an American radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles were the voice of nearsighted cartoon character Mr and he also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire. An avid golfer, Backus made the 36-hole cut at the 1964 Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament, james Gilmore Backus was born February 25,1913, in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Bratenahl, Ohio, a wealthy village surrounded by greater Cleveland. He was the son of Russell Gould Backus, a mechanical engineer, Backus attended Shaw High School in East Cleveland, Ohio. Backus was expelled from the Kentucky Military Institute for riding a horse through the mess hall, Backus was acting on radio as early as 1940, playing the role of millionaire aviator Dexter Hayes on Society Girl on CBS. He also made appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies and he was also judge Bradley Stevens in I Married Joan from 1952-1955. Backus was the voice of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo. Years later, when Backus was a frequent talk show guest, henny Backus, Jims wife, recalled the story, “Jim was in the 1952 film Don’t Bother to Knock, with Marilyn Monroe. He came home one night during the filming and told me that Miss Monroe in her most seductive breathy voice asked him to meet her in her dressing room and his curiosity got the better of him and he went. Once there, she exclaimed like a child, ‘Do Mr. Magoo. ’ And Jim did. Backus costarred in the comedy show I Married Joan from 1952 to 1955, in stark contrast to his usual affluent characters, he appeared on The Brady Bunch as an old gold prospector, a role he also played on a Gilligans Island episode. He also appeared in the season episode The Hustler in which he plays Mikes boss. Backus stayed with Gilligans Island between 1964 and 1967 and did revivals of the TV series in TV films made between 1978 and 1981. He also did revivals of Mr. Magoo from 1964 to 1977, in 1977, Backus appeared in Never Con a Killer, the pilot for the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang. He also co-wrote the 1971 family film Mooch Goes to Hollywood, in the late 1950s, he made two novelty 45 rpm records, Delicious and Cave Man. Backus also played the voice of God in the recording of Truth of Truths, Backus acted in several television commercials. As Mr. Magoo, he also helped advertise the General Electric line of products over the years and he was also spokesman for La-Z-Boy furniture during the 1970s. In the late 1980s, he was reunited with former co-star Natalie Schafer in an advertisement for Orville Redenbachers popcorn and they reprised their roles from Gilligans Island, but instead of still being shipwrecked, the setting was a luxurious study or den
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Edgar Barrier
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Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show and he also appeared in two films with Welles, Macbeth and Journey into Fear. Barrier also appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson and he was a guest star on a few episodes of Disneys Zorro as Don Cornelio Esperon. Barrier was born in New York City and died in Hollywood, Edgar Barriers Broadway stage credits are listed at the Internet Broadway Database. Mary of Scotland as Lord Douglas Idiots Delight as Auguste The Magnificent Yankee as Mr. org profile Edgar Barrier at the Internet Movie Database
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Eileen Barton
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Eileen Barton was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, If I Knew You Were Comin Idve Baked a Cake. Barton was born in Brooklyn, New York and her birthdate is often given as 1929, but a certified copy of her birth certificate shows that she was born in 1924. This was done commonly, to shave a few years from a performers age, eileens parents, Benny and Elsie Barton, were vaudeville performers. She first appeared in her parents act in Kansas City at age 2½, singing Aint Misbehavin, at 3½, she appeared at the Palace Theater, doing two shows a day as part of comedian Ted Healys routine. Barton soon became a child star and she would ask to sing, he would tell her she couldnt, and she would remind him that her daddy was the sponsor, so hed let her sing a current hit song. She also was a regular on The Milton Berle Show in 1939, at 8, she had a daily singing program of her own on radio station WMCA, Arnolds Dinner Club. At 10, she appeared twice on Rudy Vallées network radio program in 1936 and she also acted on radio series such as Death Valley Days. At age 11, she left show business briefly, at age 14 she went on the Broadway stage as an understudy to Nancy Walker in Best Foot Forward, followed by an appearance under her own name with Elaine Stritch in Angel in the Wings. She co-starred on Sinatras show beginning August 16,1944, and was part of Sinatras act at the Paramount Theater in 15 appearances there. She also appeared on her own and as a guest performer with such stars as Count Basie, Nat King Cole, in 1945, Barton had her own radio program, Teen Timers. That November, the name was changed to the Eileen Barton Show. It was broadcast Saturday mornings on NBC, in 1954, she starred in the The Eileen Barton Show, a 13-episode transcribed program for the United States Marine Corps. Barton was a performer on The Swift Show in 1948, on Broadway Open House in 1951. She also appeared in 1961-62 as the assistant mayor of the TV game shows Video Village and Video Village and her first record, done for Capitol Records, was Would You Believe Me. with the orchestra of Lyle Skitch Henderson, in 1948. In 1949 she cut the record of If I Knew You Were Comin Idve Baked a Cake and introduced it on Don McNeills radio program, on the record, Traces band musicians backed her, but were given billing as The New Yorkers. The record became one of the records on an independent label of all time, charting at #1 for 12 weeks. After the success of this record, she became a club and stage performer, appearing at all the important clubs in New York City. In the 1950s, she was a singer with Guy Lombardo
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Richard Basehart
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John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in the television science fiction-drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and he also prominently portrayed Wilton Knight in the cult series Knight Rider. Basehart was equally active in cinema, receiving National Board of Review Awards for his performances in Fourteen Hours and he was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit, the directorial debut of Karl Malden. One of his most notable roles was the acrobat known as the Fool in the acclaimed Italian film La Strada. He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wises The House on Telegraph Hill. From 1964 to 1968, Basehart played the role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on Irwin Allens first foray into science-fiction television. Although Basehart started his career as a actor, he reached a larger audience with his role in this series. Basehart was noted for his deep, distinctive voice and narrated a wide range of television, in 1964, he narrated the David Wolper documentary about the Kennedy assassination, Four Days in November. He appeared in the episode of the television series Knight Rider as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the shows credits, Basehart took the lead role in the 1962 film Hitler. He appeared in Probe 7, Over and Out, an episode of The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in Little House on the Prairie in 1976. In 1972, he appeared in the Columbo episode Dagger of the Mind in which he and Honor Blackman played a theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier. In the feature realm, he played a role as a doctor in Rage. He made a few TV movies including Sole Survivor and The Birdmen, both were based on true stories during World War II. In 1979, he appeared as a Russian diplomat with Peter Sellers in Being There, Baseheart was a public announcer during the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After the death of his first wife Stephanie Klein, he wed Italian actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had a son, after their divorce, Basehart married Diana Lotery, with whom he founded the charity Actors and Others for Animals. The charity was created after Basehart saw a small dog get thrown from a vehicle on a Los Angeles freeway. He was reportedly so moved by the tragedy that he started the nonprofit organization
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William J. Bell
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William Joseph Bill Bell was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Bell was married to talk show host Lee Phillip Bell, who co-created The Young and the Restless and The Bold. Their three children, Bill Jr. Bradley, and Lauralee, and daughter-in-law Maria Arena Bell are all involved in their parents soaps in some capacity. Brenda Dickson, an original cast member of The Young and The Restless and he then went on to wreak havoc on her personal and professional life by hiring Mafia cartel judges and attorneys to ruin her life. As a result, she ended up broke and homeless and has been blocked from working ever since, on April 29,2005, Bell died at age 78 from complications of Alzheimers disease. He is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles and he started out as a comedy writer at WBBM-TV in Chicago, and one day he made a call to Irna Phillips secretary Rose Cooperman asking her Does Irna have an opening. Rose said Irna did have an opening, by the time he got there it turned out the guy who was leaving decided to stay. About two years later William J. Bell was in advertising business and he ran into Irnas niece and she mentioned him to Irna and Ms. Phillips remembered who he was, she also knew his wife, who was a celebrity in Chicago at that time. He started out at $75 a week and ended up living in what once was Howard Hughes villa and his mother regularly listened to radio soap operas, Life Can Be Beautiful, The Romance of Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday and The Guiding Light. Bell co-created Another World with Phillips in 1964, in 1965, he co-created the primetime As the World Turns spinoff Our Private World. In 1966, he was hired as writer of the then-struggling soap Days of Our Lives. Bell was credited with the initial surge of popularity. Bell changed the dynamics of soaps when he began focusing on sexuality, formerly, soap operas did not delve into the sexual side of their romances. He intended to leave the show around 1972 when he began creating his own show The Young and the Restless and he remained as head writer until 1975. In 1972, CBS executives wanted a new daytime serial that was youth oriented, William along with his wife Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. However, before the show went into production, he had to rename the series as Bell mentioned. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence. Innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects and they renamed the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth and mood of the early seventies. He spent between ten and sixteen hours a day writing stories, the Young and the Restless debuted on March 26,1973
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Whit Bissell
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Whitner Nutting Bissell, better known as Whit Bissell, was an American character actor. Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell and he trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had a number of roles in Broadway theatre, including the Air Force show Winged Victory, in a career that began with the film Holy Matrimony, Bissell appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes as a prominent character actor. Regularly cast in low-budget science fiction and horror films, his roles include a mad scientist in the film I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Professor Frankenstein in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. He also played the attending psychiatrist who treats the protagonist, Dr. Miles Bennell, played by Kevin McCarthy, in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and appeared in Creature from the Black Lagoon. Bissell appeared as a guest star in television drama series between the early 1950s and the mid-1970s, with more sporadic appearances after that. He guest-starred in a couple of episodes of The Lone Ranger and he also appeared on other syndicated series, including Sheriff of Cochise, Whirlybirds, Peyton Place and The Brothers Brannagan. He was cast too in the religion series Crossroads and Going My Way, Bissell played murderer Larry Sands on CBSs Perry Mason. He made three other Perry Mason appearances, including the role of Max Pompey in The Case of the Lavender Lipstick and he played different roles in multiple episodes of the ABC series The Rifleman. From 1959 to 1961, Bissell was a regular for the third and fourth seasons of the television series Bachelor Father, costarring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran and he was cast three times on the long-running NBC western series The Virginian. Bissells most prominent television role came when he played as General Heywood Kirk in 30 episodes in the 1966-1967 season of the television series The Time Tunnel. Bissell appeared in the classic episode The Trouble With Tribbles of Star Trek, footage of which was re-used in Star Trek, Deep Space Nines Trials and Tribble-ations. In 1978 and 1980, Bissell appeared in episodes of The Incredible Hulk, first in the second-season episode Kindred Spirits and he played a different professor in both episodes. Bissell portrayed the undertaker in the film The Magnificent Seven, in 1960, Bissell had appeared in George Pals production of The Time Machine, as Walter Kemp, one of the Time Travellers dining friends. He also appeared in a 1978 TV movie adapting the H. G. Wells novel for a modern setting. Thirty-three years later, in 1993 the documentary film Time Machine, The Journey Back and it was Bissells last acting performance. Bissell received a career award from the Academy of Science Fiction. He also served for years on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild
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Billy Bletcher
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William Billy Bletcher was an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is mostly known for his role for voicing Pete in the Mickey Mouse short films from 1932 to 1954. Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1910s to the 1970s, including appearances in several Our Gang and he was most active as a voice actor. His voice was a deep, strong and booming baritone, Bletcher provided the voices of various characters for Walt Disney Pictures. He auditioned to play one of the dwarfs in Disneys Snow White, however, Walt Disney disapproved in fear that people would recognize Bletcher from the studios Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck short subjects. In MGM films, he voiced Spike the Bulldog and on occasions even Tom and Jerry, in Tom and Jerry. He portrayed another villainous wolf in Little Red Riding Rabbit and his booming voice can also be heard as Dom Del Oro the Yacqi Indian god in the 1939 Republic serial, Zorros Fighting Legion. In 1939, Billy Bletcher and Pinto Colvig were hired to perform ADR work for the Emerald City munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, Bletcher did voice acting for the 1944 Private Snafu World War II training film Gas, where Bletcher plays the villainous Gas Cloud. Bletcher also played The Captain in Captain and the Kids with MGM cartoons, in 1950, he played several characters on The Lone Ranger radio program as well as appearing in episode 27 of the TV series. In 1971, Bletcher played one of his roles, Pappy Yokum in a television adaptation of Lil Abner. Billy Bletcher at the Internet Movie Database Billy Bletcher at AllMovie
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Robert Bloch
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Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of. Bloch wrote hundreds of stories and over 30 novels. He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle, H. P. Lovecraft was Blochs mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while Bloch started his career by emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he specialized in crime. Bloch was a contributor to magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter. He won the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, in 2008, The Library of America selected Blochs essay The Shambles of Ed Gein for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime. His favorites among his own novels were The Kidnapper, The Star Stalker, Psycho, Night-World and his work has been extensively adapted for the movies and television, comics and audio books. Bloch was born in Chicago, the son of Raphael Ray Bloch, a cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb. Blochs family moved to Maywood, a Chicago suburb, when he was five and he attended the Methodist Church there, despite his parents Jewish heritage. At ten years of age, living in Maywood, he attended a screening of Lon Chaney, the scene of Chaney removing his mask terrified the young Bloch and sparked his interest in horror. In 1929 Ray Bloch lost his job, and the family moved to Milwaukee. Robert attended Washington, then Lincoln High School, where he met lifelong friend Harold Gauer, Gauer was editor of The Quill, Lincolns literary magazine, and accepted Blochs first published short story, a horror story titled The Thing. Both Bloch and Gauer graduated from Lincoln in 1934 during the height of the Great Depression, Bloch was involved in the drama department at Lincoln and wrote and performed in school vaudeville skits. H. P. Lovecraft, a frequent contributor to Weird Tales became one of his favorite writers, as a teenager, Bloch wrote a fan letter to Lovecraft, who gave him advice on his own fiction-writing efforts. Blochs first publication was with the short story Lilies in the semi-professional magazine Marvel Tales, Bloch began correspondence with August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith and others of the Lovecraft Circle. Blochs first publication in Weird Tales was in its letter-column, with a letter criticising the Conan stories of Robert E. Howard
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Lloyd Bochner
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Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor. At the age of 11, Bochner began his career on Ontario radio programs. He went on to garner two Liberty Awards, the highest acting honour in Canada, for his work in Canadian film, in 1951, he moved to New York City and appeared in early television series such as One Mans Family and Kraft Television Theatre. In 1960, ABC called with a role in the series Hong Kong with co-star Rod Taylor. Faced against NBCs Wagon Train, then one of the most highly rated programs on the air, in 1961, he guest-starred in The Americans, an American Civil War drama about how the conflict divided families, starring Darryl Hickman. From 1963 to 1964, Bochner was a member of the repertory cast of NBCs The Richard Boone Show, in 1964, he guest-starred in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season-one episode The Fear-Makers. Later that year, he appeared as murderer Eric Pollard in the Perry Mason episode, in 1965, he guest-starred on ABCs Western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. Two years later, he appeared on the ABC military-Western Custer starring Wayne Maunder in the title role and he appeared twice on the long-running television Western The Virginian in the 1960s. Bochner is also smooth and malicious as the gangster Carter against Lee Marvin in John Boormans seminal 1960s film noir Point Blank. In 1960, he starred in an adaptation of A. J. Cronins The Citadel along with Ann Blyth and his son Paul said he almost always played a suave, handsome, wealthy villain. A typical and famous Bochner role was that of the scheming Cecil Colby on Dynasty, a few years later, Bochner planned to star as C. C. Capwell on the daytime drama Santa Barbara, but a heart attack caused his departure from the series, in 1998, Bochner co-founded the Committee to End Violence, a panel designed to study the impact violent images had on culture. He was also active in Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists and was an amateur radio operator. That same year he appeared in 12 OClock High, playing the British officer, Major Mallory, in 1969, Bochner played a handsome warlock named Franklyn in a season-five episode of Bewitched, titled Marriage Witches Style. In 1970, Bochner played a strangler on Hawaii Five-O in the episode called Beautiful Screamer. Later on Hawaii Five-O, he was the Navy captain in a 1975 episode called Murder and he also appeared in Hawaii Five-O season 12 in an episode called Clash of the Shadows as a Jewish diplomat. He was Commandant Leiter in the Battlestar Galactica original-series episode Greetings from Earth and he also appeared as a Royal Air Force officer and his German double on an episode of Hogans Heroes in the episode A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To London. He played a coach in Columbo, The Most Dangerous Match
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John Boles (actor)
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John Boles was an American actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein. Boles was born in Greenville, Texas to a middle-class family and he graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1917. He returned to Greenville, where he was selected by a producer to act in an opera at the King Opera House. This experience convinced John that he preferred music and the stage to the preference of his parents, during World War I, he was a US spy in Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey. He started out in Hollywood in silent movies, but became a star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music and he quickly became well known for his talents and was selected to replace the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became a star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors. He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924 and he starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in The Love of Sunya opposite Gloria Swanson, unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta The Desert Song and this film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures selected him to play the man in their extravagant production of Rio Rita. Audiences were enthralled by his voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make records of songs that he had sung in his films. As soon as Rio Rita was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the man in an even more extravagant musical entitled Song of the West that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract and he starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled The King of Jazz and a historical operetta entitled Captain of the Guard. In 1931, he starred in One Heavenly Night, which would prove to be his last major musical, Boles portrayed Victor Moritz in Frankenstein. In 1943, he co-starred with Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in One Touch of Venus, Boles retired from the screen and stage in 1952, after starring opposite Paulette Goddard in Babes in Baghdad
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Dorris Bowdon
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Dorris Estelle Bowdon was an American actress, best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda. Dorris Estelle Bowdon was born on December 27,1914 in Coldwater, Mississippi, Bowdon was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s. When she was 20 years old, talent scout Ivan Kahn found her in Memphis, Tennessee and she didnt fare so well in her first test, so she was given another try. She was married to Nunnally Johnson from 1939 until his death in 1977 and they resided in a mansion located at 625 Mountain Drive in Beverly Hills, California. It was designed by architect Paul R. Williams and built from 1937 to 1938 by O Neal and she died in Los Angeles at the age of ninety of a stroke and heart failure. She was cremated and a portion of her ashes were scattered at sea, actor Jack Johnson is her grandson. Always Goodbye Down on the Farm Young Mr. Lincoln Drums Along the Mohawk The Grapes of Wrath Jennie The Moon Is Down Dorris Bowdon at the Internet Movie Database Dorris Bowdon at AllMovie
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Fanny Brice
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Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation, for which Streisand won an Oscar. Fania Borach was born in New York City, the child of Rose, a Hungarian Jewish woman who emigrated to America at age ten. The Boraches were saloon owners and had four children, Phillip, born in 1887, Carrie, born in 1889, Fania, born in 1891, under the name Lew Brice, her younger brother also became an entertainer and was the first husband of actress Mae Clarke. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 to 1911. She was hired again in 1921 and performed in the Follies into the 1930s, in the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing My Man, which became both a big hit and her signature song. She made a recording of it for Victor Records. The second song most associated with Brice is Second Hand Rose and she recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor and also cut several for Columbia. She is a recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of My Man. Brices Broadway credits include Fioretta, Sweet and Low, and Billy Roses Crazy Quilt and her films include My Man, Be Yourself. and Everybody Sing with Judy Garland. According to film historian Richard Barrios, My Man is a lost film, Brice, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld and Ziegfeld Follies. For her contribution to the picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at MP6415 Hollywood Boulevard. Brices first regular radio show was probably The Chase & Sanborn Tea Hour, from the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Baby Snooks premiered in The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air in February 1936 on CBS, with Alan Reed playing Lancelot Higgins, her beleaguered Daddy. In September 1944, Brices longtime Snooks sketch writers, Philip Rapp and David Freedman, brought in partners, Arthur Stander and Everett Freeman, to develop an independent, the program launched on CBS in 1944, moving to NBC in 1948, with Freeman producing. First called Post Toasties Time, the show was renamed The Baby Snooks Show within short order, though in later years it was known colloquially as Baby Snooks. On the spinoff version of Baby Snooks, Hanley Stafford played Daddy, with Reed instead appearing as Daddys employer, Stafford eventually became the longest-running actor to portray the Daddy character. Brice was so meticulous about the program and the character that she was known to perform in costume as a toddler girl even though seen only by the radio studio audience. She was 45 years old when the character began her long radio life and she was completely devoted to the character, as she told biographer Norman Katkov, Snooks is just the kid I used to be
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Les Brown (bandleader)
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The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, led by Brown while he was a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts, the band now performs under the direction of his son, Les Brown, Jr. Brown was born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania. Brown attended college at Duke University from 1932–1936, there he led the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, who performed regularly on Dukes campus and up and down the east coast. Brown took the band on a summer tour in 1936. At the end of the tour, while some of the members returned to Duke to continue their education, others stayed on with Brown and continued to tour. In 1942 he and his band concluded work on an RKO picture, Sweet and Hot, played at the Palladium Ballroom, a few years later, in 1945, this band brought Doris Day into prominence with their recording of Sentimental Journey. The songs release coincided with the end of World War II in Europe, the band had nine other number-one hit songs, including Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. Les Brown and the Band of Renown performed with Bob Hope on radio, stage and they did 18 USO Tours for American troops around the world, and entertained over three million people. Before the Super Bowls were televised, the Bob Hope Christmas Specials were the programs in television history. Tony Bennett was discovered by Bob Hope and did his first public performance with Brown, the first film that Brown and the band appeared in was Seven Days Leave starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball. Rock-A-Billy Baby, a low-budget 1957 film, was the Band of Renowns second and in 1963, Brown and the Band were also the house band for The Steve Allen Show and the Dean Martin Variety Show. Brown and the band performed with every major performer of their time, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald. The annual Les Brown Big Band Festival, started March 2006 in Les hometown, at the 2012 festival celebrating the 100th birthday anniversary, the town of Reinerton renamed the street near Les birthplace to Les Brown Lane. In 2013 the his hometown of Reinerton, PA adopted as the official slogan, Reinerton, The Town of Renown in honor of Les. Les Brown Sr. died of cancer in 2001, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife Evelyn, son Les Jr. and he was 88 years old at the time of his death. His grandson, Jeff Swampy Marsh, co-created the show Phineas, Brown was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2001, Les Brown, Jr. born 1940, became the leader of the Band of Renown
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Vanessa Brown
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Vanessa Brown was an Austrian-born American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television. Born Smylla Brind in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents, Brown and her family fled to Paris, within a few years the family had settled in America and Brown auditioned for Lillian Hellman for a role in Watch on the Rhine. In high school she wrote and directed school plays and she graduated from UCLA in 1949, having majored in English. While there, she was movie critic and feature writer for the Daily Bruin, browns IQ of 165 led to two years of work as one of the young panelists on the radio series Quiz Kids. She specialized in literature and language, in her adult years, she had an interview program on the Voice of America. She was also heard on Lux Radio Theatre, Skippy Hollywood Theatre, NBC University Theatre, Brown was a junior member of the National Board of Review, the critical panel serving the motion picture industry. RKO Radio Pictures brought her family to Los Angeles, and Brown made her debut in Youth Runs Wild. RKO changed her name to Vanessa Brown and assigned her to a series of ingenue roles over the next few years. She was the actress to play the role of Jane, appearing in Tarzan and the Slave Girl opposite Lex Barker, followed by a role in Vincente Minnellis acclaimed The Bad. Her last film appearance was playing Millie Perkinss sister in the horror film The Witch Who Came from the Sea. In the 1950s, Brown was a regular panelist on Ill Buy That on CBS and she also acted in live television dramas of the early 1950s, including Robert Montgomery Presents and The Philco Television Playhouse, and appeared on Pantomime Quiz and Leave It to the Girls. She later appeared on television series as The Wonder Years and Murder. She also had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Donna Kress in the 1959 episode, back on Broadway, she originated the role of The Girl in The Seven Year Itch, the character portrayed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film version. She continued to do much television through the 1950s, and was one of the narrators of the United World Federalists documentary Eight Steps to Peace, along with Vincent Price, Brown also ventured into writing for the stage. She was the author of Europa and the Bull, based on the legend of Europa, Brown was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to the partys national convention in 1956. In 1962, she was a member of a committee that promoted a campaign for Adlai Stevenson as governor of California. In 1959, Brown was described in an article as a promising artist whose oil paintings hang in the homes of top film colony personalities. She signed her paintings with her name, Symila
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Clarence Bull
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Clarence Sinclair Bull was a portrait photographer who worked for movie studios during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stills department for nearly forty years, clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in the 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the MGM stars and he is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo taken during the years of 1926-1941. Bulls first portrait of Garbo was a study for the Flesh. Bull was able to study with the great Western painter, Charles Marion Russell and he also served as an assistant cameraman in 1918. Bull was skilled in the areas of lighting, retouching, and he was most commonly credited as C. S. Bull. Bull died on June 8,1979 in Los Angeles, California, aged 83
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Sebastian Cabot (actor)
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He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film Kismet and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series Checkmate. Cabot was also a performer in many Disney animated films. Not long thereafter, he brought life to Bagheera in The Jungle Book, Cabot was born in London, England. At the age of 14, he left school to work in an automotive garage, Cabot became interested in theatre, and after becoming acquainted with other actors and having worked for Pettingell, he joined a repertory company. Cabot admitted that in gaining employment as an actor he lied about previous acting credits, Cabot stated later in a 1968 interview that he believed acting was a type of lying, and he had gained a smoothness in his speech while serving as Pettingells dressing room butler. At this time, Cabot developed a love of cooking and, at the urging of his father, however, after wrecking a car, Cabot left the garage and had to look for acting work on his own. He initially used an agency to find acting employment, without attending any drama school, Cabot learned the hard way, having been fired on his first day in a show called On The Spot. However, finding work, Cabots confidence in his acting skills increased. He and his wife Kathleen had three children, two daughters, Annette and Yvonne, and a son, Christopher and his formal acting career began with a bit part in Foreign Affaires, his first screen credit was in Alfred Hitchcocks Secret Agent. Other British films followed such as Love on the Dole, Pimpernel Smith, Old Mother Riley Overseas and Old Mother Riley Detective, in 1946, he portrayed Iago in a condensed short film version of Othello. In George Pals production of H. G. Wells The Time Machine he was Dr. Hillyer who doubts the time travellers story, meanwhile, Cabot had begun to work as a voice actor. He also did voice parts for animated films such as Disneys The Sword In The Stone as Sir Ector, Jungle Book as Bagheera. Cabot had a period as one of the three leads as college professor Dr. Carl Hyatt on Eric Amblers detective show Checkmate, which co-starred Anthony George. As Checkmate fit into the CBS Saturday schedule, Cabot appeared as Eric Whitaker in the 1960 episode Five OClock Friday on the ABC adventure series, Cabot was a regular panellist on the television game show, Stump the Stars. He appeared on the NBC interview programme Heres Hollywood, Cabot was also the host of Journey to Midnight as well as other work from the period. He was so vividly etched as French in viewers minds that he never shook the image even after Family Affair ended production in 1971 and he received another role as the host of Ghost Story, a supernatural anthology. Following the series demise, Cabot played Kris Kringle in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street. He also released an album of spoken recitations of songs by Bob Dylan, as Sebastian Cabot, actor/Bob Dylan, poet, two tracks from this album appear on the Rhino Records compilation Golden Throats, The Great Celebrity Sing Off
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Sammy Cahn
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Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his lyrics to films and Broadway songs. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the tenure at Capitol Records. He played the piano and violin and he won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song Three Coins in the Fountain. Among his most enduring songs is Let It Snow, cowritten with Jule Styne in 1945. Cahn was born Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Abraham and Elka Reiss Cohen. His sisters, Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn and his mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, feeling that the piano was a womans instrument, so he took violin lessons. After three lessons and following his bar mitzvah, he joined a small band called Pals of Harmony. This new dream of Cahns destroyed any hopes his parents had for him to be a professional man. At age 16, he was watching vaudeville, of which he had been a fan since the age of 10, and he witnessed Jack Osterman singing a ballad Osterman had written. Cahn was inspired and, on his way home from the theater, wrote his first lyric, years later he would say I think a sense of vaudeville is very strong in anything I do, anything I write. They even call it a vaudeville finish, and it comes through in many of my songs, just sing the end of All the Way or Three Coins in the Fountain—Make it mine, make it mine, MAKE IT MINE. If you let people know they should applaud, they will applaud, much of Cahns early work was written in partnership with Saul Chaplin. They first met when Cahn invited Chaplin to audition for him at the Henry Street Settlement, Cahn said, Id learned a few chords on the piano, maybe two, so Id already tried to write a song. Something I called Shake Your Head from Side to Side, billed simply as Cahn and Chaplin, they composed witty special material for Warner Brothers musical short subjects, filmed at Warners Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, New York. There was an outfit on West 46th Street, Beckman. They were the MCA, the William Morris of the Borscht Belt, I got a room in their offices, and we started writing special material. For anybody whod have us—at whatever price and they did not make much money, but they did work with up-and-comers Milton Berle, Danny Kaye, Phil Silvers, and Bob Hope
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Truman Capote
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At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, an absence from his mother. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 8, Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, Miriam, attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent four years writing the book aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, a milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood was the peak of Capotes literary career. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on talk shows. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and his parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mothers relatives. He formed a fast bond with his mothers distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk and her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincolns, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind, is how Capote described Sook in A Christmas Memory. In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee, as a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of school. Capote was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad and he was given the nickname Bulldog around this age. Capote received recognition for his work from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1936. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and shortly afterwards, when his income crashed, of his early days, Capote related, I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day. In 1935, he attended the Trinity School in New York City and he then attended St. Joseph Military Academy. In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the schools literary journal, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper. When they returned to New York City in 1942, he attended the Franklin School, an Upper West Side private school now known as the Dwight School and that was the end of his formal education. While still attending Franklin in 1943, Capote began working as a copyboy in the art department at The New Yorker, years later, he reminisced, Not a very grand job, for all it really involved was sorting cartoons and clipping newspapers
