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Delbert Mann
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Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty, from 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGAs honorary life member award, Mann was credited to have helped bring TV techniques to the film world. Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was born on January 30,1920 in Lawrence, Kansas to Delbert Mann, Sr. and his father taught sociology at the University of Kansas from 1920 to 1926. In 1926, the Manns left Lawrence and moved to Pennsylvania, there, his father continued to teach sociology at the Scarritt College for Christian Workers. His mother was also a schoolteacher, Mann was head of his high school drama club when he met Fred Coe, the future television producer and director, who was leading a church-sponsored acting society. Coe would later figure prominently in Manns career as a director, Coe would also serve as Manns mentor. Mann studied political science in Vanderbilt University and he graduated there in 1941 with a bachelors degree on political science. During World War II, Mann served with the Army Air Corps as a B-24 bomber pilot, Mann also attended the Yale School of Drama, where he earned a masters fine arts degree in directing. Mann went on to take a job at the Town Theatre. Mann was affiliated with the Town Theatre from 1947 to 1949, in 1949, at Coes invitation, Mann joined him in New York, where he became a stage manager and assistant director at NBC. Within months, he became a director of the anthology series. Between 1949 and 1955, Mann directed more than 100 live television dramas, but even after turning to films, he returned to television and directed productions for Playhouse 90, Ford Star Jubilee and other dramatic television anthology series. He also directed more than two films for television from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, including Heidi, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre. Mann was married to Ann Caroline Gillespie from 1942 until her death by Alzheimers disease in 2001 and they had four children, Fred, David, Steven and Susan. Susan died in a car accident in 1976, on November 11,2007, Mann died of pneumonia at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Delbert Mann
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Cary Grant
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Cary Grant was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywoods definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his accent, debonair demeanor. He became an American citizen in 1942, Born in Horfield, Bristol, Grant became attracted to theatre at a young age, and began performing with a troupe known as The Penders from the age of six. After attending Bishop Road Primary School and Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, he toured the country as a stage performer and he established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Along with the later Arsenic and Old Lace and I Was a Male War Bride, having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart. In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the actor that he had ever loved working with. His comic timing and delivery made Grant what Premiere magazine considers to have quite simply. Grant was married five times, three of his marriages were elopements with actresses—Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon and he has one daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant. After his retirement from acting in 1966, Grant pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé. He was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970, in 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, after Humphrey Bogart. Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18,1904 at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield and he was the second child of Elias James Leach and Elsie Maria Leach. Elias, the son of a potter, worked as a tailors presser at a factory, while Elsie. Grants elder brother, John William Elias Leach, died of tuberculous meningitis, Grant considered himself to have been partly Jewish. He had an upbringing, his father was an alcoholic. Wanting the best for her son, Elsie taught Grant song and dance when he was four and she would occasionally take him to the cinema where he enjoyed the performances of Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain and Broncho Billy Anderson. Grant entered education when he was four-and-a-half and was sent to the Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol, another biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, notes that Elsie blamed herself bitterly for the death of Grants older brother John, and never recovered from it. Grant later acknowledged that his experiences with his fiercely independent mother affected his relationships with women later in life
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Promotional photo of Cary Grant for
Suspicion (1941)
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Grant,
Rosalind Russell and
Ralph Bellamy in a publicity photo for
His Girl Friday (1940)
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With
Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's
North by Northwest (1959)
Cary Grant
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With
Ingrid Bergman in
Alfred Hitchcock 's
Notorious (1946)
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Doris Day
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Doris Day is a retired American actress and singer, and continuing animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording Sentimental Journey, in 1948, Day was given a key part in the film Romance on the High Seas, despite not having any acting experience. Its director, Michael Curtiz, gave her the part since she looked like the All-American Girl and it led to a 20-year career in film, including a string of musicals and romantic comedies beginning in the 1950s. She starred with leading men such as Clark Gable in Teachers Pet, Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk and Send Me No Flowers, Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink and she was usually one of the top 10 singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female star in the early 1960s. In 2011 – well into her late 80s – she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. She has been Oscar nominated six times, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B, deMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Associations Career Achievement Award. Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3,1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Alma Sophia, a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, All of her grandparents were German immigrants. The youngest of three siblings, she had two brothers, Richard and Paul, several years older. Due to her fathers alleged infidelity, her parents separated and she developed an early interest in dance, and in the mid-1930s formed a dance duo with Jerry Doherty that performed locally in Cincinnati. A car accident on October 13,1937, injured her legs, while recovering, Day started to sing along with the radio and discovered a talent she did not know she had. But the one radio voice I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and Id sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, observing her daughter rekindled Almas interest in show business, and she decided to give Doris singing lessons. She engaged a teacher, Grace Raine, after three lessons, Raine told Alma that young Doris had tremendous potential, which led Alma to give her daughter three lessons a week for the price of one. Years later, Day said that Raine had the biggest effect on her singing style, during her radio performances, Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who was looking for a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job. According to Rapp, he had auditioned about 200 singers when Day got the job, while working for Rapp in 1939, she adopted the stage surname Day, at Rapps suggestion. Rapp felt that Kappelhoff was too long for marquees, and he admired her rendition of the song Day After Day, after working with Rapp, Day worked with bandleaders Jimmy James, Bob Crosby, and Les Brown
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Publicity photo, 1957
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At the Aquarium Jazz Club, New York (1946)
Doris Day
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With
Gordon MacRae in
Starlift (1951)
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Doris Day and
Howard Keel,
Calamity Jane (1953)
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Gig Young
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Gig Young was an American film, stage, and television actor. Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a slimy dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, an alcoholic, Young was implicated in the murder-suicide that resulted in the deaths of his wife and himself in 1978. Born Byron Elsworth Barr in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he and his siblings were raised by his parents, John and Emma Barr. When he was six, his family moved back to their hometown of Waynesville, North Carolina and he developed a passion for the theatre while appearing in high school plays, and after some amateur experience he applied for and received a scholarship to the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse. While acting in Pancho, a play by Lowell Barrington, he. Both actors were signed to supporting player contracts with the studio and his early work was un-credited or as Byron Barr. Young appeared in supporting roles in films during the 1940s. Young took a hiatus from his career and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1941 where he served as a pharmacists mate until the end of World War II. In early 1942, in a bit part and nearly unseen, in his distinctive voice, he had one line. Less than two years later, he played opposite her as her beau in Old Acquaintance. After Youngs return from the war, Warner Bros. dropped his option and he then began freelancing at various studios, eventually obtaining a contract with Columbia Pictures before returning to freelancing. During those years, Young began to play the type of role that he would become best known for, in 1955, Young became the host of Warner Bros. Presents, a title for three television series that aired during the 1955–56 season on ABC Television. He played a role the same year in the Humphrey Bogart thriller The Desperate Hours. Young is also remembered by many James Dean fans for the driving safety interview made shortly before Deans fatal car accident in September,1955, on the 1964–65 NBC series The Rogues, he shared appearances on a rotating basis with David Niven and Charles Boyer. Young won the Academy Award for his role as Rocky, the dance marathon emcee and promoter in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Dont They. According to his wife, Elaine Williams, What he was aching for. For Young, the Oscar was literally the kiss of death, Young himself had said to Louella Parsons, after failing to win in 1951, so many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards
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Young in 1953
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Audrey Meadows
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Audrey Meadows was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners. Audrey Meadows was born Audrey Cotter in New York City in 1922 and her parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, had been Episcopal missionaries in Wuchang, Hubei, China, where her three elder siblings were born. The family returned to live in New York in 1921 and her older sister was actress Jayne Meadows. She attended high school at the Barrington School for Girls in Great Barrington, after high school, she sang in the Broadway musical Top Banana before becoming a regular on television in The Bob and Ray Show. When The Honeymooners became a situation comedy on CBS, Meadows continued in the role. She then returned to play Alice after a hiatus, when Gleason produced occasional Honeymooners specials in the 1970s. Meadows had auditioned for Gleason and was turned down for being too chic. Meadows submitted a far different photo of herself, looking much plainer, Meadows was the only member of the Honeymooners cast to earn residuals after the Classic 39 episodes of the show from 1955-56 started airing in reruns. Her brother Edward, a lawyer, had inserted a clause into her original contract whereby she would be if the shows were rebroadcast. However, Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, did receive royalty payments when the lost Honeymooners episodes from the variety shows were later released and her last work was an appearance on Daves World, in which she played the mother of Kenny. In 1956, she married a wealthy real estate man named Randolph Rouse, on August 24,1961, Meadows married her second husband, Robert F. Bob Six, president of Continental Airlines, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He died on October 6,1986, Meadows served as director of the First National Bank of Denver for 11 years, the first woman to hold this position. In October 1994, Meadows published her memoirs, Love, Alice, in 1995 Meadows was diagnosed with lung cancer and given a year to live. She declined all but palliative treatment and she died on February 3,1996, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after slipping into a coma, five days before her 74th birthday. She was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, next to her husband
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Meadows in 1959
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Russell Metty
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Russell Metty, A. S. C. was an American cinematographer who won the Academy Award Best Cinematography, Color, for the 1960 film Spartacus. Mettys career began around 1925 as an assistant with Standard Film Laboratory and he became a regular cameraman at Universal Studios, and was a regular collaborator with the German film director Douglas Sirk, making eleven films all together with Sirk. Wins Academy Awards, Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for Spartacus, nominations Laurel Awards, Golden Laurel, Top Cinematography – Color, for Imitation of Life 5th place,1959. Academy Awards, Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for Flower Drum Song,1962
Russell Metty
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Promotional image
Russell Metty
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With
Ann Blyth on the set of
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Russell Metty
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Director
Stanley Kubrick looking through camera with cinematographer Russell Metty (in hat) standing behind, on set for
Spartacus (1960).
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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s
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Mark Dintenfass was co-founder of Universal Studios.
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Universal Studios Inc.
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Boris Karloff in
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Ceremonial gate to Universal Studios Hollywood (the theme park attached to the studio lot)
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Rolls-Royce (car)
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Vickers plc owned Rolls-Royce Motors between 1980 and 1998. Volkswagen AG acquired Rolls-Royce Motors in 1998 and renamed the firm Bentley Motors Limited in 2003, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, a subsidiary of BMW AG established in 1998 that began production of vehicles in 2003. The Bentley Continental coupés did not have Rolls-Royce equivalents, Rolls-Royce Phantom limousines were also produced. Rolls-Royce and Bentley Photos, Reports and Books
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The Rolls Royce mascot "
The Spirit of Ecstasy "
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"the Hon. C.S. Rolls' autocar with HRH The Duke of York, Lord Llangattock, Sir Charles Cust and the Hon. C.S. Rolls as occupants" (1900). Charles Stewart Rolls went on to co-found Rolls-Royce in 1906.
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Original 1905 Rolls-Royce
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1979
Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II
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New York Yankees
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The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the American League East division. The Yankees are one of two league clubs based in New York City, the other being the NL New York Mets. In the 1901 season, the club play in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles. Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise and moved it to New York City, the Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in 1913. The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, an LLC controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman is the teams general manager, and former catcher Joe Girardi is the teams skipper. The teams home games were played at the original Yankee Stadium from 1923 to 1973, in 2009, they moved into a new ballpark of the same name after the previous facility was closed and demolished. The team is perennially among the leaders in MLB attendance—in 2011, one of the most successful sports clubs in the world, the Yankees have won 18 division titles,40 AL pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB records. In pursuit of winning championships, the franchise has used a large payroll to attract talent, according to Forbes, the Yankees are the second highest valued sports franchise in the United States and the fourth in the world, with an estimated value of approximately $3.4 billion. The Yankees have garnered enormous popularity and a fanbase, as well as widespread enmity from fans of other MLB teams. The teams rivalry with the Boston Red Sox is one of the most well-known rivalries in U. S. sports, at the end of 1900, Ban Johnson, president of the American League—a minor league previously known as the Western League —reorganized the league. He added teams in three East Coast cities, forming the American League as a league in an attempt to challenge the National League for supremacy. Plans to add another a team in New York City were blocked by the NLs New York Giants, instead, a team was placed in Baltimore, Maryland, a city which the NL abandoned when it contracted from 12 to 8 teams in 1900. Nicknamed the Orioles, the team playing in 1901 and was managed. During the 1902 season, McGraw feuded with Johnson and secretly jumped to the Giants, in January 1903, a peace conference was held between the two leagues to settle disputes and try to coexist. At the conference, Johnson requested that an AL team be put in New York and it was put to a vote, and 15 of the 16 major league owners agreed on it, with only John T. The Orioles new owners, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, found a location not blocked by the Giants. The teams new ballpark, Hilltop Park, was constructed in one of Upper Manhattans highest points—between 165th and 168th Streets—just a few blocks away from the much larger Polo Grounds, the team came to be known as the New York Highlanders
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Hilltop Park, home of the Highlanders
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Team logo
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The
Polo Grounds, home of the Yankees from 1913 to 1922
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With his hitting prowess,
Babe Ruth ushered in an offensive-oriented era of baseball and helped lead the Yankees to 4 World Series titles
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Mickey Mantle
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Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick, was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees as a fielder and first baseman. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history, Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Mantle was arguably the greatest offensive threat of any center fielder in baseball history and he has the highest career OPS+ of any center fielder and he had the highest stolen base percentage in history at the time of his retirement. He also had an excellent 0.984 fielding percentage when playing center field, Mantle was noted for his ability to hit for both average and power, especially tape measure home runs. He hit 536 MLB career home runs, batted.300 or more ten times, Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, leading the major leagues in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in, he later wrote a book about his best year in baseball. He was an All-Star for 16 seasons, playing in 16 of the 20 All-Star Games that were played and he was an American League Most Valuable Player three times and a Gold Glove winner once. Mantle appeared in 12 World Series including seven championships, and holds World Series records for the most home runs, RBIs, extra-base hits, runs, walks, and total bases. Mantle was born on October 20,1931 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma and he was of at least partial English ancestry, his great-grandfather, George Mantle, left Brierley Hill, in Englands Black Country, in 1848. Mutt named his son in honor of Mickey Cochrane, a Hall of Fame catcher, later in his life, Mantle expressed relief that his father had not known Cochranes true first name, as he would have hated to be named Gordon. Mantle spoke warmly of his father, and said he was the bravest man he ever knew, No boy ever loved his father more, he said. His grandfather died at the age of 60 in 1944, when Mantle was four years old, his family moved to the nearby town of Commerce, Oklahoma, where his father worked in lead and zinc mines. As a teenager, Mantle rooted for the St. Louis Cardinals, Mantle was an all-around athlete at Commerce High School, playing basketball as well as football in addition to his first love, baseball. His football playing nearly ended his athletic career, kicked in the left shin during a practice game during his sophomore year, Mantle developed osteomyelitis in his left ankle, a crippling disease that was incurable just a few years earlier. Mantle began his baseball career in Kansas with the semi-professional Baxter Springs Whiz Kids. In 1948, Yankees scout Tom Greenwade came to Baxter Springs to watch Mantles teammate, during the game, Mantle hit three home runs. Greenwade returned in 1949, after Mantles high school graduation, to sign Mantle to a league contract. Mantle signed for $140 per month with a $1,500 signing bonus, Mantle was assigned to the Yankees Class-D Independence Yankees of the Kansas–Oklahoma–Missouri League, where he played shortstop
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Mantle in 1952
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Mantle (left) in the early 1960s signing an autograph
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Mickey Mantle
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Roger Maris
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Roger Eugene Maris was an American professional baseball player who played four seasons in the minor leagues and twelve seasons in the major leagues. Maris played right field on four Major League Baseball teams, from 1957 through 1968, Maris set the MLB record for home runs during the 1961 season with 61, breaking Babe Ruths single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927. This record was challenged by then-baseball commissioner Ford Frick, who said that Maris needed to break the record in 154 games instead of the current schedule of 162 games. His accomplishment of 61 home runs in a season back to the forefront in 1998. Maris began playing in the leagues in 1953. He reached the leagues in 1957 playing for the Cleveland Indians. He was traded to the Kansas City Athletics during the 1958 season and he finished his MLB career playing for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1967 and 1968. Maris was an American League All-Star from 1959 through 1962, an AL Most Valuable Player in 1960 and 1961, Maris appeared in seven World Series, five as a member of the Yankees and two with the Cardinals. Roger Eugene Maras was born on September 10,1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota, Maris parents, Rudolph S. Rudy Maras and Corrine, were both of Croatian origin. Roger had a brother, Rudy who was a year older, the Maras family moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1942 and to Fargo, North Dakota in 1946, where he attended Fargo Central High School. Maris parents had a turbulent marriage and divorced in 1960 and his father died in Fargo in 1992 at age 81. After Maris retired from baseball he moved to Gainesville, Florida, Corrine Maras died in 2004 at the age of 90. Maris transferred to Shanley High School at Fargo in 1950, and he met his future wife, Patricia, in the tenth grade, while both were attending a high school basketball game. Roger and Rudy Maris Jr. both participated in sports including American Legion baseball during the summers while in Fargo, in 1950, Roger led his North Dakota legion team to the state championship. He was a player with the Fargo-Moorhead Twins of the Northern League in 1952. In football, Roger still holds the high school record for most return touchdowns in a game. Maris was recruited to play football at the University of Oklahoma and he decided to go there, but after visiting the campus, he returned to Fargo where he wanted to stay the most and be near his brother who was sick with polio. He decided finally on a baseball career, in 1953, he was invited to the Cleveland Indians tryout camp where he was viewed by the Cleveland Indians general manager, Hank Greenberg
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From left to right, the bats used to hit Babe Ruth's 60th homer in 1927, Roger Maris' 61st in 1961, and Mark McGwire's 70th and Sammy Sosa's 66th in 1998.
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Maris in 1960
Roger Maris
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Maris (left) receiving a
Fraternal Order of Eagles Award with
Wilma Rudolph (right)
Roger Maris
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Roger Maris plaque in Yankee Stadium's
Monument Park.
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Yogi Berra
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Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball. He was an 18-time All-Star, and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any player in MLB history. Berra had a batting average of.285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of five players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, Berra was a native of St. Louis, and signed with the Yankees in 1943 before serving in the U. S. Navy in World War II. He made his debut at age 21 in 1946 and was a mainstay in the Yankees lineup during the teams championship years beginning in 1949. Despite his short stature, Berra was a power hitter and strong defensive catcher and he caught Don Larsens perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. After playing 18 seasons with the Yankees, Berra retired following the 1963 season and he spent the next season as their manager, then joined the New York Mets in 1965 as coach. Berra remained with the Mets for the decade, serving the last four years as their manager. He returned to the Yankees in 1976, coaching them for eight seasons and he was one of seven managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. Berra appeared as a player, coach or manager in one of the 13 World Series that New York baseball teams competed in from 1957 through 1981. In all, he appeared in 21 World Series,13 on the winning side, the Yankees retired his uniform number 8 in 1972, in an unusual twist, Bill Dickey also wore number 8, and both catchers had that number retired by the Yankees. The club honored him with a plaque in Monument Park in 1988, Berra was named to the MLB All-Century Team in a vote by fans in 1999. For the remainder of his life, he was involved with the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center. Berra quit school after the eighth grade and he was known for his malapropisms as well as pithy and paradoxical statements, such as It aint over til its over, while speaking to reporters. He once simultaneously denied and confirmed his reputation by stating, I really didnt say everything I said, Yogi Berra was born Lorenzo Pietro Berra in a primarily Italian neighborhood of St. Louis called The Hill to Italian immigrants Pietro and Paolina Berra. Pietro was originally from Malvaglio near Milan in northern Italy, he arrived at Ellis Island on October 18,1909 at the age of 23, in a 2005 interview for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Yogi said, My father came over first. He came from the old country, and he didnt know what baseball was
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Berra in 1953
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Yogi Berra (left) with
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Mickey Mantle, 1953
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Berra as the New York Mets' first base coach, 1969.
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Bermuda
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Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina,1,236 km south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Bermuda is an associate member of Caribbean Community. The first person known to have reached Bermuda was the Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez in 1503 and he claimed the islands for the Spanish Empire. Bermúdez never landed on the islands, but made two visits to the archipelago, of which he created a recognisable map, shipwrecked Portuguese mariners are now thought to have been responsible for the 1543 inscription on Portuguese Rock. Subsequent Spanish or other European parties are believed to have released pigs there, the island was administered as an extension of Virginia by the Company until 1614. Its spin-off, the Somers Isles Company, took over in 1615, at that time, the companys charter was revoked, and the English Crown took over administration. The islands became a British colony following the 1707 unification of the parliaments of Scotland and England, after 1949, when Newfoundland became part of Canada, Bermuda became the oldest remaining British Overseas Territory. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, it is the most populous Territory and its first capital, St. Georges, was established in 1612 and is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the New World. Bermudas economy is based on insurance and reinsurance, and tourism. Bermuda had one of the worlds highest GDP per capita for most of the 20th century, recently, its economic status has been affected by the global recession. The island is in the belt and prone to severe weather. However, it is protected from the full force of a hurricane by the coral reef that surrounds the island. It is 898 nautical miles northeast of Miami, Florida, and 667 nautical miles from Cape Sable Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. The islands lie due east of Fripp Island, South Carolina, west-northwest of Cape Verde, southeast of New York City, New York, north-northwest of Brazil and north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The archipelago is formed by points on the rim of the caldera of a submarine volcano that forms a seamount. The volcano is one part of a range that was formed as part of the process that formed the floor of the Atlantic. It has 103 km of coastline, the two incorporated municipalities in Bermuda are the City of Hamilton and the Town of St George. Bermuda is divided into nine parishes, which have some localities called villages, such as Flatts Village, although usually referred to in the singular, the territory consists of 181 islands, with a total area of 53.3 square kilometres
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View from the top of Gibb's Hill Lighthouse
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Bermuda pictured from the
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The image of the
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John Astin
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Astin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his directorial debut, a comedic short film entitled Prelude. Astin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Margaret Linnie and Dr. Allen Varley Astin, at that time, Astin and his family resided on Battery Lane in Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1952, after transferring from Washington & Jefferson College and he studied mathematics at Washington & Jefferson and then drama at Johns Hopkins, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Johns Hopkins. Astin started in theater, making his first Broadway appearance as an understudy in Major Barbara and his first big break in film came with a small part in West Side Story in 1961. In 1961, he appeared in the episode of the ABC police drama The Asphalt Jungle. In 1962–1963, Astin starred with Marty Ingels in the unusual ABC sitcom Im Dickens, Hes Fenster, from 1964 to 1966, he starred in The Addams Family as Gomez Addams, the head of the macabre family. He appeared in the TV show The New Addams Family as Grandpapa Addams in 1998, Astin joined the retooled The Pruitts of Southampton for the second half of the 1966–1967 season, playing Dillers brother-in-law, Angus Pruitt. He also played the Riddler in the season of Batman He played submarine commander Matthew Sherman in the 1970s TV series Operation Petticoat. He also made a appearance in the popular mystery show Murder, She Wrote. He had a role on the sitcom Night Court as Buddy, eccentric former mental patient. He also played the role of Ed LaSalle in the short-lived Mary Tyler Moore sitcom Mary during the 1985–86 television season. Astin received an Academy Award nomination for Prelude, a film that he wrote, produced. He was nominated for an Ace Award for his work on Tales from the Crypt and he also voiced the character Bull Gator on the animated series Taz-Mania. Astin served for four years on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America and he has continued to work in acting, appearing in a string of Killer Tomatoes films as Professor Gangreen and as Professor Wickwire in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He also has toured the one-man play Edgar Allan Poe, Once Upon a Midnight, written by Paul Day Clemens, commenting on his dual career, he said in 2007, I dont know one major university that has a known actor teaching every day. He hopes to re-establish a drama major at the university, noting that he is one of only a handful to earn a degree from Hopkins. Astin can be seen singing and playing cowbell in a video from JHU released in December 2009. Astin has five sons, three with his first wife, Suzanne Hahn, two with his wife, actress Patty Duke – one adopted and one biological
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Astin in a 1977 publicity photo
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The
Operation Petticoat television cast: back, from left: Doreen Thomson,
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The handprints of John Astin in front of
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Dick Sargent
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Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the television series Bewitched. The actor took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name, born Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, on April 19,1930, to Ruth McNaughton, daughter of John McNaughton who founded Los Angeles famed Union Stockyards. She appeared under the nom-de-arte of Ruth Powell, and had important supporting bit roles in such classics as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Hearts. Sargents father, Colonel Elmer Cox, who served in World War I, later became a manager to such Hollywood alumni as Douglas Fairbanks. Sargent attended the San Rafael Military Academy in Menlo Park, California before majoring in drama at Stanford University, Sargent had appeared in films since his debut in Prisoner of War. He appeared on the short-lived sitcom Broadside and the even shorter-lived Tammy Grimes Show, later, he played Darrin Stephens on Bewitched for three years between 1969 and 1972, replacing ailed actor Dick York. His later movies included the 1979 film Hardcore as Jake Van Dorns straight-laced brother-in-law, Wes DeJong and he also played Sheriff Grady Byrd on two 1979–1980 season episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard. Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, The Devlin Connection, Trapper John, M. D. Alice, Matt Houston, Benson, in 1990, he also portrayed himself on an episode of Columbo. In the mid-1980s, he landed the role of Richard Preston. He also appeared in the movie Teen Witch in 1989 and on Diffrent Strokes, throughout the 1980s, he joined actress Sally Struthers as an advocate for Christian Childrens Fund, which brought relief to developing nations children. On National Coming Out Day in 1991, Sargent publicly declared his homosexuality, the high rate of suicide among young homosexuals was the main reason, he jokingly referring to himself as a retroactive role model. Sargent recognized that his ill health from prostate cancer may have led people to assume he suffered from AIDS and he lived with his domestic partner, Albert Williams, until his death. In June 1992, Sargent was a Grand Marshal of the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade along with Elizabeth Montgomery, Sargent was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1989. Doctors were initially optimistic that it could be treated, however, the disease continued to spread and, by early 1994, he had become seriously ill. Sargent died from the disease on July 8,1994, at age 64, former Bewitched co-star Elizabeth Montgomery commented, He was a great friend, and I will miss his love, his sense of humor and his remarkable courage. Montgomery herself died of cancer a year later. Dick Sargent is Out and Proud, archived from the original on September 20,2011. Dick Sargent at the Internet Movie Database Dick Sargent at AllMovie Dick Sargent at the TCM Movie Database Dick Sargent at Find a Grave
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John Fiedler
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John Donald Fiedler was an American actor and voice actor who was slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a distinctive, high-pitched voice. His career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television, peterson, the hen-pecked milquetoast on The Bob Newhart Show. Fiedler was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, a son of Donald Fiedler, a beer salesman and he was of German and Irish descent. His family moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin in 1930, where he graduated from Shorewood High School in 1943 and he enlisted in the United States Navy and served until the end of World War II. After his discharge from the Navy, Fiedler began acting in New York City and he appeared on early television and played Cadet Alfie Higgins on the 1950s show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, and he made his film debut in 1957 in 12 Angry Men, as Juror #2. Fiedler was in the original cast of A Raisin in the Sun and he appeared in the films True Grit, The Cannonball Run, and Harper Valley PTA. E. The Golden Girls, Kolchak, The Night Stalker, Banacek and he had a recurring role on Kolchak, The Night Stalker as morgue attendant Gordy The Ghoul Spangler. His last film was an appearance in Kronks New Groove. Fiedler was also the narrator of several McDonaldland commercials during the 1980s, including when Birdie the Early Bird learns to fly and he was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. After Fiedlers death, Travis Oates took over the role of Piglet
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Fiedler in the Star Trek episode "
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Richard Deacon (actor)
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Richard Deacon, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American television and motion picture actor. This tall, bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous, prissy and he made appearances on The Jack Benny Program as a salesman and a barber, and on NBCs Happy as a hotel manager. He had a role in Alfred Hitchcocks film The Birds as Mitchs neighbor who advises Melanie that Mitch has gone to Bodega Bay for the weekend. He played a role in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as a physician in the book-end sequences added to the beginning. He co-starred as Tallulah Bankheads butler in a episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour called The Celebrity Next Door. Deacon played Roger Buell on the season of TVs The Mothers-in-Law. He played Principal Jazz-Bow Conroy in The Danny Thomas Show and he also appeared in the 1960 Perry Mason episode The Case of the Red Riding Boots as Wilmer Beaslee. Philadelphia-native Deacon played the role of Morton Stearnes butler, George Archibald, whose testimony is a turning point in The Young Philadelphians. He played an imbibing Justice of the Peace, Reverend Zaron, Deacon appeared in many sitcoms, including Its a Great Life, The Peoples Choice, How to Marry a Millionaire, Guestward, Ho. Pete and Gladys, The Donna Reed Show, The Real McCoys, Get Smart, Bonanza, in episode 5 of the first 1964 season of The Munsters, Pikes Pique, he plays a Water District Commissioner, Mr. Pike, buying the underground right to lay pipe. In the The Addams Family, he administers Cousin Itt a battery of tests in the May 1965 episode Cousin Itt. In 1966, he appeared on Phyllis Dillers short-lived television sitcom, in 1967, Deacon played Ralph Yarby, director of security for lumber baron D. J. In 1968, he played Dean Wheaton in the Walt Disney film Blackbeards Ghost, in 1969, he co-starred on Broadway as Horace Vandergelder in the long-running musical Hello, Dolly. Reuniting him onstage with Diller, who played the musicals title character. In 1983, Deacon reprised his role of Fred Rutherford in the television movie Still the Beaver, a sequel to the TV series Leave it to Beaver, in 1984, Deacon had a cameo role in the teen comedy film Bad Manners. A lifelong bachelor, Richard Deacon was a gay man, whose secretiveness enabled him to work for companies like Disney. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of cookbooks, Deacon died from cardiovascular disease in 1984, aged 63, and his remains were cremated. Richard Deacon at the Internet Movie Database Richard Deacon at the Internet Broadway Database Richard Deacon at Find a Grave
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Ralph Manza
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Ralph Manza was an American television and film character actor. He made appearances in over 160 films and television programs, a pre-med student at UC-Berkeley in the early 1940s, Manza was drafted into the United States Army during World War II. He was serving as a medic in the Army when he was assigned to an acting troupe, Manza appeared on daytime television briefly in 1963 as an original cast member of the ABC-TV soap opera series General Hospital, where he played the role of Mike Costello. This part of his career continued to flourish through the 1960s, with appearances on such shows as 77 Sunset Strip, McHales Navy, Perry Mason, Gomer Pyle. He went on into the 1990s, with appearances on the long-running NBC-TV sitcom series Seinfeld, CBS-TVs The Nanny and he maintained a very active career up until the time of his death. Manza died in January 2000 in Scripps Health-Encintas Hospital in Encinitas and he had also suffered a heart attack three weeks before his death, while filming a commercial for Budweiser. The Manchu Emeralds Highway Patrol as Jenkins, Ep, phony Insurance Judge Roy Bean as Gasparo, Ep. Citizen Romeo Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Waiter, Ep, safe Conduct Front Row Center as Second Waiter, Ep. The Human Touch Hey, Jeannie. as Harry and First Cabbie,2 Episodes The Enemy Below as Lieutenant Bonelli The Lineup as Lineup Suspect #2, Death in the Streets The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Bookmaker Sugarfoot as Glen Hause, Ep. Return to Boot Hill Too Soon to Love as Hughie Wineman Outlaws as Colonel, the Little Colonel Secret of Deep Harbor as Frank Miner Straightaway as Eddie, Ep. The Bribe Target, The Corruptors. as Guest Star, Ep, to A Grand and Natural Finale The Dick Powell Show as Guest Star, Ep. The Sea Witch The Gallant Men as Cafe Proprietor, Ep, some Tears Fall Dry Going My Way as Charlie, Ep. The Crooked Angel The Third Man as Guest Star, Ep, the Cross of Candos The Twilight Zone as Doorman, Ep. The Dummy That Touch of Mink as Cab Driver The Untouchables as Max Templar and Jerry,2 Episodes This Is Not a Test as Looter Alcoa Premiere as Uncle Peter, lollipop Louie General Hospital as Mike Costello, Main Cast The Wide Country as Lupo, Ep. Yanqui, Go Home. S. M. C. as Sam, Gomer, the Would-Be Hero Honey West as Putzi, Ep. Slay, Gypsy, Slay What Did You Do in the War, Daddy. as Waiter He & She as Mr. Banaducci, the Coming-Out Party Dragnet as Gene Ellis, Ep. The Big Explosion Petticoat Junction as Pierre, Ep, kates Day in Court Get Smart as Various Guest Roles,5 Episodes Family Affair as Clerk and Waiter,2 Episodes Gunsmoke as Marco, Ep. Deadmans Law The Outsider as Charley, Ep, there Was a Little Girl The Smugglers as Batisto Three Guns for Texas as Blue Dog The Bold Ones, The Lawyers as Wilfred Fletcher, Ep
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Manza (right) with John Compton in The D.A.'s Man, 1959.
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Gold Medal Books
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Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was a U. S. book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time. Fawcett was also an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1949 the company negotiated a contract with New American Library to distribute their Mentor and this contract prohibited Fawcett from publishing their own paperback reprints. Roscoe Kent Fawcett wanted to establish a line of Fawcett paperbacks, when these books successfully sailed through the contract loophole, Fawcett announced Gold Medal Books, their line of paperback originals. Sales soared, prompting Ralph Daigh to comment, In the past six months we have produced 9,020,645 books, and people seem to like them very well. However, hardcover publishers resented Roscoe Fawcetts innovation, as evidenced by Doubledays LeBaron R. Barker and it was a revolutionary turning point in paperback publishing. William Lengel was the Gold Medal editor, and the art director was Al Allard, beginning their numbering system at 101, Gold Medal got underway with Alan Hynds We Are the Public Enemies, the anthology Man Story and The Persian Cat by John Flagg. Writing about the demise of pulp magazines in The Dime Detectives, Ron Goulart observed, Fawcett dealt another blow to the pulps when, in 1950, what Gold Medal specialized in was original novels. Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing, early Gold Medal authors included John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams, Richard S. Prather, and Marijane Meaker. With an increase from 35 titles in 1950 to 66 titles in 1951, literary agent Donald MacCampbell stated that one publisher threatened to boycott my agency if it continued to negotiate contracts with original 25-cent firms
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A cover artwork for Odd Girl Out (1957) by
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Gross rental
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Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights and merchandising. All charts are ranked by international theatrical box office performance where possible, excluding income derived from video, broadcasting rights. Traditionally, war films, musicals and historical dramas have been the most popular genres, the only films in the top ten that are not adapted from a pre-existing property or a sequel are the top two, Avatar and Titanic, both directed by James Cameron. Animated family films have performed well, with Disney films enjoying lucrative re-releases prior to the home-video era. Disney also enjoyed success with films such as Frozen, Zootopia and The Lion King, as well as with its Pixar brand, of which the Toy Story. Beyond Pixar animation, the Shrek, Ice Age and Despicable Me series have met with the most success, while inflation has eroded away the achievements of most films from the 1960s and 1970s, there are franchises originating from that period that are still active. Besides the Superman franchise, James Bond, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars and Star Trek films are still being released periodically, all grosses on the list are expressed in U. S. dollars at their nominal value, except where stated otherwise. With a worldwide gross of over $2. Once revenue from home entertainment is factored in it is not immediately clear which film is the most successful, Titanic earned $1.2 billion from video and DVD sales and rentals, in addition to the $2.2 billion it grossed in theaters. After home video income is accounted for, both films have earned over $3 billion, when a film is highly exploitable as a commercial property, its ancillary revenues can dwarf its income from direct film sales. The Lion King earned over $2 billion in box-office and home video sales, Pixar also had another huge hit with Toy Story 3, which generated almost $10 billion in merchandise retail sales in addition to the $1 billion it earned at the box office. On this chart, films are ranked by the revenues from theatrical exhibition at their nominal value, twenty-eight films in total have grossed in excess of $1 billion worldwide, of which three have grossed over $2 billion, with Avatar ranked in the top position. Because of the effects of inflation, notably the significant increase of movie theater ticket prices. For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars, by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars. Ticket prices have risen at different rates of inflation around the world. Another complication is release in multiple formats for different ticket prices are charged.50. Converting to a representative system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems because the only data available for older films are the sale totals. Despite the inherent difficulties in accounting for inflation, several attempts have been made, Gone with the Wind—first released in 1939—is generally considered to be the most successful film, with Guinness World Records in 2014 estimating its adjusted global gross at $3.4 billion
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Gone with the Wind held the record of highest-grossing film for twenty-five years, and, adjusted for inflation, has earned more than any other film.
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The two highest-grossing films have both been directed and written by James Cameron.
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Films directed by Steven Spielberg have been the highest-grossing film of the year on six occasions, and on three occasions have been the highest-grossing film of all time.
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The Birth of a Nation pioneered many of the techniques used in film-making today, becoming the most successful film ever made at the time of its release.
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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Golden Globe
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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American Film Institute
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The American Film Institute is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the moving picture arts in America. AFI is supported by funding and public membership. The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, a board of trustees chaired by Sir Howard Stringer and a board of directors chaired by Robert A. Daly guide the organization, which is led by President and CEO Bob Gazzale. Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens, Jr. and Jean Picker Firstenberg. <ref>AFI Board of Trustees etc. American Film Institute. October 2014. Retrieved December 24,2014. </ref>Two years later, in 1967, AFI was established, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation. The institute established a program for filmmakers known then as the Center for Advanced Film Studies. The institute moved to its current eight-acre Hollywood campus in 1981, the film training program grew into the AFI Conservatory, an accredited graduate school. AFI educates audiences and recognizes excellence through its awards programs and 10 Top 10 Lists. In 1969, the established the AFI Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies at Greystone. The first class included filmmakers Terrence Malick, Caleb Deschanel and Paul Schrader, mirroring a professional production environment, Fellows collaborate to make more films than any other graduate level program. Admission to AFI Conservatory is highly selective, with a maximum of 140 graduates per year, in 2013, Emmy and Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks joined AFI as Artistic Director of the AFI Conservatory where he provides leadership for the film program. Brooks artistic role at the AFI Conservatory has a legacy that includes Daniel Petrie, Jr. Robert Wise. Award-winning director Bob Mandel served as Dean of the AFI Conservatory for nine years, jan Schuette took over as Dean in 2014. AFI Conservatorys alumni have careers in film, television and on the web and they have been recognized with all of the major industry awards – Academy Award, Emmy Award, guild awards, and the Tony Award. The AFI Catalog, started in 1968, is a web-based filmographic database, early print copies of this catalog may also be found at your local library. Each year the AFI Awards honor the ten outstanding films and ten outstanding television programs, the awards are a non-competitive acknowledgement of excellence. The Awards are announced in December and a luncheon for award honorees takes place the following January. The juries consisted of over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the films popularity over time, historical significance, citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice. AFI operates two film festivals, AFI Fest in Los Angeles, and AFI Docs in Silver Spring, Maryland, AFI Fest is the American Film Institutes annual celebration of artistic excellence
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The Honeymooners
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The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason, based on a recurring 1951–55 comedy sketch of the same name. The popularity of the sketches led Gleason to rework The Honeymooners as a filmed half-hour series, the final episode of The Honeymooners aired on September 22,1956, although Gleason revived the characters sporadically until 1978. The Honeymooners was one of the first U. S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a gritty, the program is also popular internationally, particularly in Canada, Poland and Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden. The majority of The Honeymooners focused on its four principal characters on fixed sets within a Brooklyn apartment building, played by Jackie Gleason—a bus driver for the fictional Gotham Bus Company based out of Brooklyn, NY. He is never seen driving a bus, but is shown at the bus depot. Ralph is frustrated by his lack of success, and often develops get-rich-quick schemes, Ralph is very short tempered, frequently resorting to bellowing, insults and hollow threats. Well-hidden beneath the layers of bluster, however, is a soft-hearted man who loves his wife and is devoted to his best pal. Ralph enjoys bowling, playing pool and being a member in the Loyal Order of Raccoon Lodge. Ralph was given membership in the union for real New York City bus drivers during the run of the show. Ralph Kramden is the inspiration for the animated character Fred Flintstone, Alice, played in the first seven episodes by Pert Kelton and by Audrey Meadows throughout the Classic 39, is Ralphs patient but sharp-tongued wife of roughly 15 years. She often finds herself bearing the brunt of Ralphs insults, which she returns with biting sarcasm and she has grown accustomed to his empty threats, One of these days. Right in the kisser. or BANG, ZOOM, to which she usually replies, Ahhh, shaddap. She studied to be a secretary before her marriage, and works briefly in that capacity when Ralph is laid off, wilma Flintstone is based on Alice Kramden. Another foil for Ralph is Alices mother, who is even sharper-tongued than her daughter and she despises Ralph as a bad provider. Alices father is mentioned but never seen. Alices sister, Agnes, appeared in one episode, Ralph and Alice lived with her mother for six years after getting married before they got their own apartment. Ralphs mother is mentioned, but appears in one episode. Ralphs father is mentioned in one episode as having given Ralph a cornet he learned to play as a boy
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The show's cast in 1955 as it premiered on CBS.
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The real 328 Chauncey Street
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Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) with Ed Norton (Art Carney), and Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows) in a Honeymooners scene.
