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Anthology series
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An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season/series. Some anthology series, such as Studio One, began on radio, many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the constant was the host. One of the earliest such programs was The Collier Hour, broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932, as radios first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Colliers Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post. Weird The Haunting Hour The Sealed Book Mystery in the Air The Weird Circle Quiet, the stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for the program to feature himself, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, when Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star, CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos n Andy and it was successful enough to be renewed and became a weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots. Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. k. a. Billy Roses Playbill Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre The Bold Ones Broadway Television Theatre Buick-Electra Playhouse Cameo Theatre Camera Three The Campbell Playhouse, Campbell Soundstage and Campbell Summer Soundstage Cavalcade of America CBS Playhouse CBS Summer Playhouse CBS Television Workshop CBS Workshop, a. k. a. CBS Repertoire Workshop Celanese Theatre Celebrity Playhouse Center Stage Cheer Television Theatre The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre a. k. a, Chevrolet on Broadway Chevron Hall of Stars Chevron Theatre Climax. Gruen Guild Theatre The Gulf Playhouse Hallmark Hall of Fame Hollywood Opening Night Hollywood Premiere Theatre, Hollywood Theatre Time International Playhouse John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You The Joseph Cotten Show, a. k. a. k. a. Max Liebman Presents Medallion Theatre, a. k. a, grimms Fairy Tale Classics Happily Ever After, Fairy Tales for Every Child The Harveytoons Show KaBlam. Late Night, Black and White Legends of Bikini Bottom Liquid Television The Looney Tunes Show Mickey Mouse Works Mickeys Mouse Tracks O Canada Off the Air Oh Yeah. Cartoons The Pink Panther Show The Popeye Show The Porky Pig Show Princes et princesses Random. M. k. a. Terribles House of Horrible The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre El Chapulín Colorado Ripping Yarns George Burns Comedy Week Good Heavens Human Remains Inside No. k. a. k. a. k. a. k. a, orson Welles Great Mysteries Out of the Fog Panic. Way of Life Family Theater Insight Lamp Unto My Feet Look Up, the Fisher Family Alcoa Presents, One Step Beyond Amazing Stories American Horror Story Are You Afraid of the Dark. L. k. a
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Richard Carlson (actor)
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Richard Dutoit Carlson was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter. The son of a Danish-born lawyer, Carlson was born in Albert Lea, Carlson majored in drama at the University of Minnesota, where he wrote and directed plays and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude with a Master of Arts degree, Carlson then opened his own repertory theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. When the theater failed, Carlson moved to New York City, in 1935, Carlson made his acting debut on Broadway in Three Men on a Horse, and appeared with Ethel Barrymore in Ghost of Yankee Doodle and Whiteoaks. In 1937, he wrote and staged the play Western Waters, Carlson then moved to California, where he joined the Pasadena Playhouse. Carlsons first film role was in the 1938 David O. Selznick comedy The Young in Heart and he worked as a freelance actor for different studios, and his film appearances included Too Many Girls with Lucille Ball, and The Little Foxes. During World War II, Carlson served in the United States Navy, when he returned to Hollywood, he had few offers of employment, and turned to writing to supplement his income. In 1948, Carlson was cast in two low-budget film noir releases, Behind Locked Doors and The Amazing Mr. X. In 1950, he co-starred with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in the highly successful adventure film King Solomons Mines, filmed on location in the Kenya Colony and the Belgian Congo. While shooting in Africa, Carlson wrote a series of articles for The Saturday Evening Post, for the rest of the 1950s, Carlson worked steadily, finding a niche in the newly re-emergent genres of science fiction and horror. He was cast in several B movies, including 3-D films, The Maze, The Magnetic Monster, It Came from Outer Space with Barbara Rush, and Creature from the Black Lagoon with Julia Adams. His success in the genre led him to the chair for the 1954 science fiction film Riders to the Stars. In 1957 and 1958, Carlson played Mr. Fiction Writer in three of the nine films made for television collectively titled The Bell Laboratory Science Series and he also directed his final film for the project, The Unchained Goddess. On July 14,1951, Carlson and then U. S, senator Hubert Humphrey were the guests on the CBS live variety show, Faye Emersons Wonderful Town, in which hostess Faye Emerson visited Minneapolis to accent the kinds of music popular in the city. In addition to writing and directing film and television projects. He was featured in 1957 in The Helen Morgan Story, the series is set at the former Fort Clark near Brackettville in southwestern Texas, where the real Mackenzie was stationed during much of the 1870s. However, the episodes were filmed at the former Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, in the series theme, Mackenzie and his men must protect the American border from an assortment of outlaws from both the United States and Mexico. Yet the Raiders cannot risk being caught within Mexico, or they would lose the support of their own government
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Richard Donner
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Richard Donner is an American film director and producer. After directing the horror film The Omen, Donner became famous for directing the first modern film, Superman. Donner later went on to such films such as The Goonies and Scrooged, while reinvigorating the buddy film genre with Lethal Weapon. He and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own the production company The Donners Company, in 2000, he received the Presidents Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner is one of Hollywoods most reliable makers of action blockbusters, Donner was born Richard Donald Schwartzberg in the Bronx, to Jewish parents, Hattie and Fred Schwartzberg. His father owned a furniture manufacturing business. Donner started his career with hopes of acting but quickly moved into directing commercials and he moved into television in the late 1950s, directing some episodes of the Steve McQueen western serial Wanted, Dead or Alive and the Chuck Connors western The Rifleman. In his early career as a director he worked on TV commercials and over twenty-five television series including Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive, get Smart, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. The Wild Wild West, Gilligans Island, Kojak, Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone, Donner directed his first feature film in 1961, X-15, which starred Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore. It was not until seven years later, however, that he directed his film, Salt and Pepper, with Sammy Davis Jr. His break-through film was The Omen, a supernatural thriller made in the wake of the success obtained by The Exorcist, the film stars Gregory Peck, David Warner and Lee Remick. It became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 1976, in 1978, Donner directed Superman, The Movie, starring Christopher Reeve in the title role. The film became a hit worldwide, projecting both Reeve and Donner to international fame, co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as archvillain Lex Luthor. It succeeded at the box office, grossing $134 million domestically, principal photography of Superman included filming of its first sequel, Superman II. Donner filmed most of Superman II with the expectation he would complete the sequel after the release of Superman, despite the first films success, Donner was fired from Superman II. Throughout the filming of Superman and Superman II, Donner had a relationship with executive producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind. Following Donners dismissal, Marlon Brandos scenes were removed from Superman II, Gene Hackman refused to return for re-shoots, consequently, all the Lex Luthor scenes that appear in Superman II were filmed by Donner, although Donner received no onscreen credit for directing. Rotten Tomatoes summary states that Superman II meets, if not exceeds, Donner continued to promote the view his contribution was superior to rest of the series
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Robert Florey
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Robert Florey was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist, and occasional actor. Born in Paris, and at first a film journalist, Florey moved to the United States in 1921, as a director, Floreys most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low-budget fillers for Paramount and Warner Brothers. He directed more than 50 movies, Florey grew up in Paris near the studio of George Melies, and as a young man served as assistant to Louis Feuillade. In the 1920s he worked as a journalist, in Hollywood as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, in the late 1920s he produced two experimental short films, The Life and Death of 9413--a Hollywood Extra co-directed with Slavko Vorkapich, and Skyscraper Symphony the following year. Florey made a significant but uncredited contribution to the script of the 1931 version of Frankenstein, by the mid-1930s Florey settled into the studio system and produced vehicles for Warren William, Guy Kibbee, and Akim Tamiroff. For some film historians, Floreys finest work is in these modest low-budget programmers and B movies. Florey hit a peak at Paramount in the late 1930s with Hollywood Boulevard, King of Gamblers, and Dangerous to Know, all marked by fast pace, cynical tone, Dutch angles and he was also associate director to Charlie Chaplin on Chaplins film Monsieur Verdoux. In 1953 Florey was one of the first seasoned feature directors to turn to television and he worked in the new medium for over a decade and produced shows for The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and The Twilight Zone. He also wrote a number of books, including Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood dhier et daujordhui, La Lanterne magique, in 1950, Florey was made a knight in the French Légion dhonneur. His 1937 thriller, Daughter of Shanghai, starring Anna May Wong, was added to the National Film Registry in 2006 and this filmography lists Floreys credits as director of feature films, and is believed to be complete. The Love of Zero,1927 Hello New York,1928 The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra,1928 Skyscraper Symphony,1929 Fifty-Fifty,1932 The Incredible Dr. Markesan Thriller Series, costars Boris Karloff,1962 Taves, Brian. Robert Florey at the Internet Movie Database Literature on Robert Florey Robert Florey at Find a Grave
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Norman Foster (director)
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Norman Foster was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. Norman Foster was born Norman Foster Hoeffer on December 13,1903, in Richmond and he originally became a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Indiana before going to New York in the hopes of getting a better newspaper job but there were no vacancies. He tried a number of theatrical agencies before getting stage work and he began working in crowd scenes in films before moving to bigger parts. He gave up acting in the late 1930s to pursue directing, although he appeared in movies. He co-wrote and directed the My Friend Bonito segment of Orson Welless unfinished Pan-American anthology film Its All True, a co-production of RKO Pictures and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the non-commercial project was later terminated by RKO. As Welles prepared to go to Brazil to film the Rio Carnival for Its All True, Welles played a small on-screen role in the Mercury Production, and denied that he took over direction of the film himself. Some of Fosters other directorial efforts include Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Rachel, Fosters second verse of his lyrics to Disneys Zorro theme song which was He is polite, but the wicked take flight, when they catch the sight of Zorro. Hes friend of the weak, and the poor, and the meek and this version of the Zorro Theme including these verses was performed by The Chordettes. These verses later appeared in the Disney Sing-Along Songs version of the Zorro Theme in its 1987 direct-to-video episode, in 1967, he directed Brighty of the Grand Canyon, based on a childrens novel by Marguerite Henry about a burro in the Grand Canyon National Park. Foster was married to Claudette Colbert from 1928 until their divorce in 1935, in October 1935, he wed actress Sally Blane, an older sister of Loretta Young. They had their first child named Gretchen and they also had a son, Robert. Foster died in 1976 from cancer in Santa Monica, aged 72 and he and Blane are interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Norman Foster at the Internet Movie Database Norman Foster at the Internet Broadway Database Norman Foster at Find a Grave
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John Newland
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John Newland was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Newland began his career as a teenager in vaudeville, after moving to New York City to study acting, he served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he signed with Warner Bros. but was relegated to playing bit parts, after directing episodes of Letter to Loretta in 1953, Newland went on to direct two episodes of Bachelor Father, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Thriller. His feature film directorial debut That Night. was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards, in 1959, Newland became the host and director of the paranormal television series One Step Beyond. The series ended its run in 1961 and Newland later hosted its short-lived counterpart The Next Step Beyond in 1978, following the demise of his One Step Beyond, Newland directed one of the early 1964 The Man from U. N. C. L. E. His episode was given additional footage and released to cinemas as a picture titled The Spy with My Face. In 1966 he produced and directed all episodes but one of the spy series The Man Who Never Was for which he also served as a writer. Some episodes were together and released outside the United States as a film called Danger Has Two Faces. He later directed episodes of The Sixth Sense, and Police Woman, in addition to acting, directing, and screenwriting, he produced several television movies. On January 10,2000, Newland died of a stroke in Los Angeles
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Loretta Young
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Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as an actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1947 film The Farmers Daughter, Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards and was rerun successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication, in the 1980s Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in Christmas Eve in 1986. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career and she was born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Gladys and John Earle Young. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela, when she was two years old, her parents separated, and when she was three, she and her family moved to Hollywood. She and her sisters Polly Ann and Elizabeth Jane worked as child actresses, Youngs first role was at the age of three, in the silent film The Primrose Ring. During her high school years, she was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School and she was signed to a contract by John McCormick, the husband and manager of the actress Colleen Moore, who saw the young girls potential. The name Loretta was given to her by Moore, who explained that it was the name of her favorite doll. Young was billed as Gretchen Young in the silent film Sirens of the Sea and it was not until 1928 that she was first billed as Loretta Young, in The Whip Woman. That same year she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, the next year she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. In 1930, when she was 17, she eloped with the 26-year-old actor Grant Withers, they were married in Yuma, the marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together was released. In 1935, she co-starred with Clark Gable and Jack Oakie in the version of Jack Londons The Call of the Wild. During World War II, Young made Ladies Courageous, the story of the Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. It depicted a unit of pilots who flew bomber planes from the factories to their final destinations. Young made as many as eight movies a year, in 1947 she won an Oscar for her performance in The Farmers Daughter. That same year she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in The Bishops Wife, in 1949 she received another Academy Award nomination for Come to the Stable. Young hosted and starred in the well-received half-hour anthology television series Letter to Loretta and she earned three Emmy awards for the program
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Single-camera setup
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The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. In this setup, each of the shots and camera angles is taken using the same camera. Choices can then be made during the editing process for when in the scene to use each shot. This also then allows parts of the scene to be removed if it is felt that the scene is too long, in practice, sometimes two cameras shooting from the same angle are used, one to capture a medium shot, the other a close-up during the same take. Unlike film producers, who almost always opt for single-camera shooting, single-camera is mostly reserved for prime-time dramas, made-for-TV movies, music videos and commercial advertisements. Soap operas, talk shows, game shows, most reality television series, Multiple-camera shooting is the only way that an ensemble of actors presenting a single performance before a live audience can be recorded from multiple perspectives. Also for standard, dialogue-driven domestic situation comedies, the multi-camera technique, situation comedies may potentially be shot in either multiple- or single-camera modes. Several comedy series of the era also use of feature film techniques. These effects were created using editing and optical printing techniques, in the case of Get Smart, the single-camera technique also allowed the series to present fast-paced and tightly-edited fight and action sequences reminiscent of the spy dramas that it parodied. Single-camera comedies were also prevalent into the early 1970s, with its large cast, varied locations, and seriocomic tone, the TV series M*A*S*H was shot using single-camera style. Happy Days began in 1974 as a series, before switching to the multi-camera setup in its second season. Unlike single-camera sitcoms of the past, nearly all contemporary comedies shot in this manner are produced without a laugh track, list of single-camera sitcoms Multiple-camera setup Tapeless camcorder
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Black-and-white
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Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts. Black-and-white images are not usually starkly contrasted black and white and they combine black and white in a continuum producing a range of shades of gray. Even when most studios had the capability to make color films they were not heavily utilized as using the Technicolor process was expensive, for the years 1940–1966, a separate Academy Award for Best Art Direction was given for black-and-white movies along with one for color. Television, Television program was first transmitted in black-and-white, scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the worlds first color television transmission on July 3,1928 using a mechanical process. Some color broadcasts in the US began in the 1950s, with color becoming common in industrialized nations during the late 1960s. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission settled on a color NTSC standard in 1953, color television became more widespread in the U. S. between 1963 and 1967, when the CBS and ABC networks joined NBC in broadcasting full color schedules. Canada began airing color television in 1966 while the United Kingdom began to use a different color system from July 1967 known as PAL. The Republic Of Ireland followed in 1970, in China, black and white television sets were the norm until as late as the 1990s, color TVs not outselling them until about 1989. While seldom used now, many consumer camcorders have the ability to record in black-and-white. Photography, Photographs were either black-and-white or shades of sepia, color photography was originally rare and expensive and again often containing inaccurate hues. Color photography became more common from the mid-20th century, Today, black-and-white is a niche market for photographers who use the medium for artistic purposes. This can take the form of film or digital conversion to grayscale. For amateur use certain companies such as Kodak manufactured black-and-white disposable cameras until 2009, also, certain films are produced today which give black-and-white images using the ubiquitous C41 color process. Printing press, Most American newspapers were black-and-white until the early 1980s, The New York Times, some claim that USA Today was the major impetus for the change to color. In the UK, color was only introduced from the mid-1980s. Even today, many newspapers restrict color photographs to the front, similarly, daily comic strips in newspapers were traditionally black-and-white with color reserved for Sunday strips. Sometimes color is reserved for the cover, magazines such as Jet magazine were either all or mostly black-and-white until the end of the 2000s when it became all-color. Manga are typically published in black-and-white although now it is part of its image, many school yearbooks are still entirely or mostly in black-and-white
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Monaural
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Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is intended to be heard as if it were a single channel of sound perceived as coming from one position. Monaural recordings, like stereo, customarily use multiple microphones, fed into multiple channels on a recording console, in some cases the multitrack source is mixed down to a one track tape becoming one signal. However, today monaural recordings are usually mastered to be played on stereo and multi-track formats, monaural sound has been replaced by stereo sound in most entertainment applications. However, it remains the standard for communications, telephone networks. A few FM radio stations, particularly talk radio shows, choose to broadcast in monaural, as a monaural signal has a slight advantage in signal strength over a stereophonic signal of the same power. Monaural sound is normal on, Phonograph cylinders Disc records made before 1958, such as made for playing at a speed of 78 rpm and earlier 16 2⁄3, 33 1⁄3. Some FM radio stations that broadcast only spoken word or talk radio content in order to maximize their coverage area, examples of this would be the CBC Radio One stations on the FM dial. Sometimes listeners will not be convinced that the signal is strong since there is no ST or STEREO LED lit, subcarrier signals for FM radio, which carry leased content such as background music for businesses or a radio reading service for the blind. Background music services such as Seeburg 1000, satellite broadcasts by Muzak as well as the public systems such services are intended to be used with. At various times artists have preferred to work in mono, either in recognition of the limitations of the equipment of the era or because of simple preference. Many of Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allens movies were recorded in mono because of their directors preferences, monaural LP records were eventually phased out and no longer manufactured after the early 1970s, with a few exceptions. For example, Decca UK had a few double issues until the end of 1970-the last one being Tom Joness I Who Have Nothing, during the 1960s it was common for albums to be released as both monaural LPs and stereo LPs, occasionally with slight differences between the two. This was because many people owned mono record players that were incapable of playing stereo records, on 9 September 2009, The Beatles re-released a remastered box set of their mono output spanning the Please Please Me album to The Beatles. The set, simply called The Beatles in Mono, also includes a summary of the mono singles, B-sides. Also included were five tracks originally mixed for an unissued mono Yellow Submarine EP, Bob Dylan followed suit on October 19,2010 with The Original Mono Recordings, a box set featuring the mono releases from Bob Dylan to John Wesley Harding. When the initial run of the box set sold out, no more were pressed, unlike the Beatles, sometimes mono sound or monaural can simply refer to a merged pair of stereo channels - also known as collapsed stereo or folded-down stereo. Over time some devices have used mono sound amplification circuitry with two or more speakers since it can cut the cost of the hardware, some consumer electronics with stereo RCA outputs have a microswitch in the red RCA output that disables merging of stereo sound into the white RCA output. Common devices with this are VCRs, DVD/Blu-ray players, information appliances, set-top boxes, video game consoles sometimes have male RCA ends of cables with a proprietary multi-A/V plug on the other end, which prevents automatic stereo merging unless adapters are used
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Listerine
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Listerine is a brand of antiseptic mouthwash product. It is promoted with the slogan Kills germs that cause bad breath, named after Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, Listerine was developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri. The Listerine brand name is used in toothpaste, Listerine Whitening rinse, Listerine Fluoride rinse, Listerine SmartRinse, PocketPaks. In September 2007, Listerine began selling its own brand of self-dissolving teeth-whitening strips, listers work in turn inspired St. Louis-based doctor Joseph Lawrence to develop an alcohol-based formula for a surgical antiseptic which included eucalyptol, menthol, methyl salicylate, and thymol. Lawrence named his antiseptic Listerine in honor of Lister, Lawrence hoped to promote Listerines use as a general germicide as well as a surgical antiseptic, and licensed his formula to a local pharmacist named Jordan Wheat Lambert in 1881. Lambert subsequently started the Lambert Pharmacal Company, marketing Listerine, Listerine was promoted to dentists for oral care in 1895 and was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States, in 1914. It became widely known and entered common use after Jordan Wheat Lamberts son Gerard Lambert joined the company. According to Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubners book Freakonomics, Listerine and it was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasnt a success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for chronic halitosis— a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerines new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage, can I be happy with him in spite of that. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe, as the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis, in just seven years, the companys revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million. Among Lamberts assets was the land for Lambert-St. From 1921 until the mid-1970s, Listerine was also marketed as preventive and remedy for colds, in 1976, the Federal Trade Commission ruled that these claims were misleading, and that Listerine had no efficacy at either preventing or alleviating the symptoms of sore throats and colds. The advertisement run by Listerine added the preamble contrary to prior advertising, for a short time, beginning in 1927, the Lambert Pharmaceutical Company marketed Listerine Cigarettes. From the 1930s into the 1950s, advertisements claimed that applying Listerine to the scalp could prevent infectious dandruff, in 1995, FreshBurst was added, then in 2003 Natural Citrus. In 2006 a new addition to the intense variety, Vanilla Mint, was released. The active ingredients listed on Listerine bottles are essential oils which are menthol 0. 042%, thymol 0. 064%, methyl salicylate 0. 06%, in combination all have an antiseptic effect and there is some thought that methyl salicylate may have an anti inflammatory effect as well
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Christmas
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In several countries, celebrating Christmas Eve on December 24 has the main focus rather than December 25, with gift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family. Although the month and date of Jesus birth are unknown, by the fourth century the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25. Today, most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar and this is not a disagreement over the date of Christmas as such, but rather a preference of which calendar should be used to determine the day that is December 25. Although it is not known why December 25 became a date of celebration, December 25 was the date the Romans marked as the winter solstice, the shortest, and therefore darkest day of the year. Jesus was identified with the Sun based on an Old Testament verse, the date is exactly nine months following Annunciation, when the conception of Jesus is celebrated. Finally, the Romans had a series of pagan festivals near the end of the year, so Christmas may have been scheduled at this time to appropriate, or compete with, one or more of these festivals. The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, the economic impact of Christmas has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world. Christmas is a form of Christs mass. It is derived from the Middle English Cristemasse, which is from Old English Crīstesmæsse, crīst is from Greek Khrīstos, a translation of Hebrew Māšîaḥ, Messiah, meaning anointed, and mæsse is from Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist. The form Christenmas was also used, but is now considered archaic and dialectal, it derives from Middle English Cristenmasse. In addition to Christmas, the holiday has been known by other names throughout its history. The Anglo-Saxons referred to the feast as midwinter, or, more rarely, Nativity, meaning birth, is from Latin nātīvitās. In Old English, Gēola referred to the corresponding to December and January. Noel entered English in the late 14th century and is from the Old French noël or naël, itself ultimately from the Latin nātālis, the canonical gospels of Luke and Matthew both describe Jesus as being born in Bethlehem in Judea, to a virgin mother. In the Gospel of Luke account, Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census and it says that angels proclaimed him a savior for all people, and shepherds came to adore him. In the Matthew account, magi follow a star to Bethlehem to bring gifts to Jesus, King Herod orders the massacre of all the boys less than two years old in Bethlehem, but the family flees to Egypt and later settles in Nazareth. The Nativity stories of Matthew and Luke are prominent in the gospels, the first recorded Christmas celebration was in Rome in 336. Christmas played a role in the Arian controversy of the fourth century, the feast regained prominence after 800, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day
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Ernie Kovacs
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Ernest Edward Ernie Kovacs was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs visually experimental and often comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death by automobile accident. Chevy Chase acknowledged Kovacs influence and thanked him during his speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Some of Kovacs unusual behaviors include having pet marmosets and wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show and his solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and make breakfast for them both, then take Ernie to the WABC studios. While Kovacs and Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a series during 1957. The 1962 Emmy for outstanding camera work and the Directors Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Broadcasting presented an exhibit of Kovacs work, the Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic, William Henry III, wrote for the museums booklet, Kovacs was more than another wide-eyed, self-ingratiating clown. He was televisions first significant video artist, Kovacs father Andrew emigrated from Hungary at age 13. He worked as a policeman, restaurateur, and bootlegger, the last so successfully that he moved his wife Mary, the end of Prohibition and the Depression resulted in difficult financial times for the family. When Kovacs began drama school, all he could afford was a fifth floor apartment on West 74th Street in New York City. During this time, he watched many Grade B movies, admission was ten cents. Many of these movies influenced his comedy routines later, a 1938 local newspaper photograph shows Kovacs as a member of the Prospect Players, not yet wearing his trademark mustache. Like any aspiring actor, Kovacs used his class time to pursue roles in summer stock companies. While working in Vermont during 1939, he became so ill with pneumonia. During the next year and a half, his comedic talents developed as he entertained both doctors and patients with his antics during stays at several hospitals. While hospitalized, Kovacs developed a love of classical music by the gift of a radio. By the time he was released, his parents had separated and he began work as a cigar salesman, which resulted in a lifelong cigar-smoking habit
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Candid Camera
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Candid Camera is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as The Candid Microphone June 28,1947. After a series of film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funts concept came to television on August 10,1948. Aside from occasional specials in the 1980s and 1990s, the show was off air until making a comeback on CBS in 1996 and this incarnation of the weekly series ended on May 5,2004, concurrent with the selling of the PAX network itself. Beginning on August 11,2014, the returned in a new series with hour-long episodes on TV Land. The format has been revived numerous times, appearing on U. S. TV networks and in syndication in each succeeding decade, Funt, who died in 1999, hosted or co-hosted all versions of the show until he became too ill to continue. His son Peter Funt, who had co-hosted the specials with his father since 1987, became the producer, when the joke was revealed, victims would be told the shows catchphrase, Smile, youre on Candid Camera. The show often played its hidden-camera pranks on celebrities as well, when police officers informed her a con artist was behind the charity, they convinced her to donate a much larger amount with the assurance that he would be arrested when he accepted the check. In another episode, the show filmed the reactions of citizens after they saw the former President Harry S. Truman walking down the street. After being advised that the president and his Secret Service entourage would be taking a walk in downtown Manhattan. A young woman who was a runner was planted at a street corner they would pass. After this was several times, she asked President Truman if something seemed familiar. The former president replied he expected she had something to do with the van that had been following him, some of Funts pieces did not involve pranks but consisted simply of interviews with ordinary people. There were bizarre sequences in which people, sometimes children, gave one-of-a-kind interpretations of works of art, a little girl once told Funt that The Discus Thrower by Praxiteles showed a man throwing his little girls allowance to her while she stood in the back yard. The Candid Microphone was first heard on Saturday, June 28,1947 and that series came to an end on September 23,1948. Beginning June 6,1950, The Candid Microphone was broadcast by CBS on Tuesdays at 9,30 p. m. sponsored by Philip Morris, the announcer for the radio program was Dorian St. George. The format moved to syndication in 1951 and continued for three years returning to NBC in 1958 as a segment of Jack Paars The Tonight Show. The segment reappeared in 1959 on CBS as a feature on The Garry Moore Show and its longest uninterrupted run came in the CBS Sunday evening version. Debuting in October 1960, dominating its 10pm time slot for seven years, in these shows producer/host Funt was joined on stage by several co-hosts
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Julie Adams
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Julie Adams is an American actress, primarily in television. She starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Bend of the River and she is also known for her roles as Paula Denning on Capitol and as Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote. Julie Adams was born as Betty May Adams on October 17,1926 in Waterloo and her family moved a great deal, the longest she lived in one town was eight years in Blytheville, Arkansas. Adams worked as a secretary and began her film career in B-movie westerns. In 1946, at the age of 19, she was crowned Miss Little Rock and then moved to Hollywood, California to pursue her acting career. She used her name until 1949, when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie, in 1954, she explained the latter change, The studio picked Julia, but I never have felt comfortable with it. I just like the name Julie better, and the studio has given me permission to make the change and her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue, followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang. Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954s classic science-fiction film Creature from the Black Lagoon. In 1955, Adams co-starred with Rory Calhoun, subsequently of the CBS western television series, The Texan, in the film The Looters, part of the picture was filmed about Tarryall Creek at what is now Eleven Mile State Park in Park County in central Colorado. The advertising poster reads, Five desperate men, and a girl who didnt care. Trapped on a mountain of gale-lashed rock, Adams also starred in 1957s Four Girls in Town, a romantic comedy about four young women competing for the leading role in a new movie, featuring an international cast. She appeared with Elvis Presley in the musical-comedy Tickle Me in 1965, Adams thought highly of her co-star, noting, Despite his status as a superstar singer and stage performer, Elvis took his acting very seriously. He was always prepared, and did a job in the roles he was given. When he did his musical numbers in Tickle Me, sometimes walking from table to table in a nightclub set, on television in 1962, Adams portrayed Mary Simpson, a county nurse and romantic interest of Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1965, she played the role of defendant Pat Kean in The Case of the Fatal Fortune, Adams appeared on The Rifleman as a dubious vixen and romantic interest of lead character Chuck Connors. She guest-starred in five episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents three times, and on Maverick twice. More guest-star roles in popular TV series followed, including McMillan & Wife, Police Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Quincy, M. E. Adams co-starred with James Stewart in The Jimmy Stewart Show on NBC in 1971-1972
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John Agar
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John George Agar, Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Revenge of the Creature, Flesh and the Spur and he was the first husband of Shirley Temple. Agar was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lillian and John Agar and he was educated at the Harvard School for Boys in Chicago and Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois. He graduated from Trinity-Pawling Preparatory School in Pawling, New York and he and his family moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1942, after his father’s death. During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps, mostly at the March Field in Riverside, California and he was a sergeant at the time he left the AAF in 1946. Agars sister was a schoolmate of Shirley Temple, in 1944 Agar escorted Temple to a party held by her boss at the time, David O. Selznick. The two fell in love and were married in 1945, Selznick signed Agar to a five-year acting contract starting at $150 a week, including acting lessons. Agar and Temple worked together in Fort Apache and Adventure in Baltimore, the first of these, where they supported John Wayne, was particularly successful. Agar later reunited with Wayne in two hits, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Sands of Iwo Jima. Agar and Temple had a daughter together, Linda Susan Agar, however, the marriage floundered, in part because of Agars drinking and in part because of pressures of their high public profile. Temple sued for divorce on the grounds of cruelty in 1949. In 1950 Agar was fined for reckless driving, in 1951 Agar was jailed for five months for drunk driving. He was released after 60 days on probation, in 1953 he was arrested for drunk driving again and was sentenced to 120 days in prison. Agars career suffered in the wake of his divorce, but he developed a niche playing leading men in science fiction, Western. John Wayne gave him several supporting roles in the late 1960s, in later years he worked extensively in television. I dont resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all, even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, Im doing my job, in 1954 Agar signed a seven-year contract with Universal
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Claude Akins
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Claude Marion Akins was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies. He is remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s television series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, but he grew up in Bedford, Indiana. He served with the U. S. Army Signal Corps in World War II in Burma, after the war, he graduated in 1949 from Northwestern University, where he had majored in Theatre and became a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. As a film actor, Akins first appeared in 1953s From Here to Eternity and he appeared as a seaman and shipmate of Lee Marvin in the 1954 The Caine Mutiny. He portrayed prisoner Joe Burdette in Rio Bravo, Naval Lt. Commander Farber in Dont Give Up the Ship, Sgt Kolowicz in Merrills Marauders and he had a tiny part in the movie The Sea Chase with John Wayne. He appeared with Yul Brynner and Robert Fuller in the film Return of the Seven, Akins was cast in a large number of television series, including The Adventures of Superman, in which he plays a villainous conspirator, Crusader, and I Love Lucy. He appeared once on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Empire, Laredo, the series, Pony Express. He was cast as Jarret Sutton in Escape to Memphis and as Beaudry Rawlins in Duel on the River in Darren McGavins NBC series, the episode was later broadcast on the regular series as Rodeo Rough House. Beverly Garland also appeared in the episode as Nellie Austin, a sharpshooter, Akins and Garland much later appeared together in the 1963 episode The Chooser of the Slain on the ABC/Warner Bros. western series, The Dakotas. Dark had foiled a robbery by the Reeves brothers, one of whom was killed, but his hand was severely injured. June avoided her husband for his own protection when the outlaw brothers pursued them, clem Reeves was portrayed by Tony Young, later cast as Cord in the short-lived Gunslinger series on CBS. Ultimately, the gang was captured, and the Darks were reconciled, Akins was featured in two episodes of the original CBS series The Twilight Zone. He guest-starred in three each of Combat. and The Untouchables. He appeared on Rod Camerons early syndicated series, City Detective, Meet McGraw with Frank Lovejoy, the ABC/WB drama, The Roaring 20s, Akins other early appearances included a role as a policeman on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in Place of Shadows and Reward to Finder. Akins played another television cop, good-natured Sheriffs Detective Phillip Dix and he was in a first-season episode of Maverick titled Burial Ground of the Gods that starred Jack Kelly. In 1965 Akins played El Supremo in The Man from U. N. C. L. E, episode, The Very Important Zombie Affair. In 1967 Akins played Lt. Finch in The Lucy Show episode, Lucy Meets the Law, Lucy is eventually cleared of the crime when the actual redhead confesses to it
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Anna Maria Alberghetti
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Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian operatic singer and actress. Born in Pesaro, Marche, in central Italy, she starred on Broadway and her father was an opera singer and concert master of the Rome Opera Company. She had a brother named Gorge, at age six, Anna Maria sang in a concert on the Isle of Rhodes with a 100-piece orchestra. She performed at Carnegie Hall in New York at the age of 13, at 15, she was introduced to American film audiences in Frank Capras 1951 musical Here Comes the Groom, which starred Bing Crosby. Alberghetti appeared twice on the cover of Life magazine and she appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show more than 50 times. She guest-starred in 1957 on NBCs The Gisele MacKenzie Show and that same year, she performed in the premiere episode of The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on ABC. She co-starred with Dean Martin in 1957s Ten Thousand Bedrooms and with Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella, not long after the Martin, albergetti also appeared in 1955s The Last Command, which starred Sterling Hayden, and had the leading role in the western Duel at Apache Wells in 1957. In 1959, the 22-year-old Alberghetti played the lead in The Conchita Vasquez Story of NBCs Wagon Train and she was cast as part of a gang of Comancheros who intend to attack the wagon train to steal rifles headed to the United States Army. Instead, she decides to leave the Comancheros and move west after she falls in love with scout Flint McCullough, tragically, as the episode ends, Conchita is killed by a bullet from her own people when they ambush the wagon train. On March 1,1961, she appeared as a guest contestant on the television series Ive Got A Secret, Alberghetti has toured in many theatrical productions and continues with her popular one-woman cabaret act. She had roles in a pair of 2001 films, The Whole Shebang and her sister, Carla, also became a musical artist who appeared in many stage productions. She eventually became Anna Marias replacement in her Tony Award-winning role on Broadway and she also had a brother named Gorge. Alberghetti appeared in commercials for Good Seasons salad dressing during the 1970s. She was married to television producer-director Claudio Guzmán from 1964 to 1974 and she was referenced in Ira Levins book Rosemarys Baby and T. C. She was referenced also in an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the joke wound up ending this way, Anna Maria Alberghetti WHO. Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey, Alberghetti currently serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of Gulfshore Playhouse, Southwest Florida’s premier professional theatre. The Medium Here Comes the Groom The Stars Are Singing The Last Command Duel at Apache Wells Ten Thousand Bedrooms Cinderfella Friends & Family The Whole Shebang Rose-Marie Carnival, in Italian Americans on the Twentieth Century, ed. George Carpetto and Diane M. Evanac. Tampa, FL, Loggia Press,1999, pp. 6–7 Dye, child and Youth Actors, Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985
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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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Eleanor Audley
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Eleanor Audley was an American actress who had a distinctive voice in radio and animation, in addition to her TV and film roles. She was known in her career for playing characters with snobbish mean attitudes. Audley also provided the voice of Madame Leota, the spirit medium, Audley was born Eleanor Zellman in New York on November 19,1905 and raised in the United States. Audley made her Broadway debut in the 1926 production of Howdy, other stage appearances include, On Call, Pigeons and People, Thunder on the Left, Kill That Story, Ladies Money, Susan and God, and In Bed We Cry. Audley worked extensively in the 1940s and 50s in Hollywood radio on such programs as Escape, Suspense, My Favorite Husband, The Story of Dr. Kildare, and Father Knows Best. In 1954, she played the stepmother in an episode included a re-imagining of the Cinderella story for the weekly western series, The Six Shooter. For those films, animators Frank Thomas and Marc Davis designed the facial features. She was the model for both characters. Audley had initially turned down the role of Maleficent because she was battling tuberculosis at the time, in 1969, Audley provided the voice of Madame Leota, the spirit of a psychic medium, in the Haunted Mansion attractions in Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Lucky, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Mister Ed, Audley was a series regular on Green Acres from 1965 to 1969, playing Oliver Douglass disapproving mother, Eunice Douglas. When the cast were reunited for a 1990 TV movie, Return to Green Acres, Audley, Audley died at the age of 86 from respiratory failure, in North Hollywood, California on November 25,1991. She is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
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Jean-Pierre Aumont was a French actor, and holder of the Legion dHonneur and the Croix de Guerre for his World War II military service. Aumont was born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons in Paris, the son of Suzanne, an actress and his mothers uncle was well-known stage actor George Berr. His father was from a Dutch Jewish family, his mothers family were French Jews, aumonts younger brother was the noted French film director François Villiers. Aumont began studying drama at the Paris Conservatory at age 16 and his professional stage debut occurred at the age of 19. His film debut one year later, when Jean de la Lune was produced in 1931. However, his most important, career-defining role came in 1934, while his film and stage career began rising quickly, World War II broke out. Aumont remained in France until 1942, when he realized that as a Jew he would have to flee the Nazis and he migrated from the unoccupied zone of France Vichy, to New York City, then to Hollywood to pursue his film career. He began working with MGM, however, after finishing The Cross of Lorraine and he was sent to North Africa, where he participated in Operation Torch in Tunisia. He moved with the Allied armies through Italy and France, during the war, he was wounded twice. The first was on a mission with his brother, the second was more serious, aumonts Jeep was blown up near a land-mined bridge. General Diego Brosset, commander of the 1st Free French Division, for his bravery during the fighting, Aumont received the Legion dHonneur and the Croix de Guerre. After the war, Aumont quickly resumed his career, starring opposite Ginger Rogers in Heartbeat. He worked with a number of prominent directors and stars, including his wife Maria Montez. In the mid-1950s, Aumont began working in the new medium of television, appearing on several programs, such as Robert Montgomery Presents. In the 1960s and 1970s, he appeared in theater productions, including the musicals Tovarich with Vivien Leigh, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, South Pacific. One of his last acting performances was in A Tale of Two Cities, Two years later, in 1991, aged 80, he received an honorary César Award as well as being decorated with the cross of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Aumont was married four times to three women and his first wife was French actress Blanche Montel, to whom he was married for two years, ultimately divorcing. While in Hollywood, Aumont married Maria Montez, a Dominican actress and she was known as the Queen of Technicolor, and their marriage was very happy
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Frances Bavier
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Frances Elizabeth Bavier was an American stage and television actress. Originally from New York theatre, Bavier worked in film and television from the 1950s and she is best known for her role of Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R. F. D. from 1960–70. Aunt Bee logged more Mayberry years than any other character and she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress for the role in 1967. Born in New York City in a brownstone on Gramercy Park to Charles S. a stationary engineer and she first appeared in vaudeville, later moving to the Broadway stage. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1925, baviers big break came in the original Broadway production of On Borrowed Time. She later appeared with Henry Fonda in the play Point of No Return, Bavier had roles in more than a dozen films, as well as playing a range of supporting roles on television. Career highlights include her turn as Mrs. Barley in the classic 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in 1955, she played the rough and tough Aunt Maggie Sawtelle, a frontier Ma Barker-type character, in a Lone Ranger episode Sawtelles Saga End. In the episode, she fights with Tonto while the Lone Ranger fought with her nephew, at the conclusion, Tonto says that he would like to trade opponents next time. In 1957, she played Nora Martin, mother to Eve Ardens character on The Eve Arden Show and that same year, Bavier guest-starred in the eighth episode of Perry Mason as Louise Marlow in The Case of the Crimson Kiss. She was in an episode of Make Room for Daddy, which featured Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor and she played a character named Henrietta Perkins. The episode became The Andy Griffith Show and Bavier was cast in the new role of Aunt Bee, Bavier had a love-hate relationship with her famous role during the run of the show. F. D. for two additional seasons. In contrast to her character, Bavier was easily offended on the set, series star Andy Griffith once admitted the two clashed sometimes during the seriess long run. In an April 24,1998, appearance on Larry King Live, Bavier won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Comedy, in 1967. In 1972, Bavier retired from acting and bought a home in Siler City, on choosing to live in North Carolina instead of her native New York, Bavier said, I fell in love with North Carolina, all the pretty roads and the trees. Bavier never married or had children, somewhat awkward in one-on-one relationships, she was nonetheless altruistic at heart. On November 22,1989, Bavier was admitted to Chatham Hospital and she was discharged on December 4,1989, and died at her home two days later, eight days before her 87th birthday. Upon her death, she was found to have had 14 cats and worn furniture, fixtures and she was described. as living a sparse life in her latter years, a very quiet life. Bavier is interred at Oakwood Cemetery in Siler City and her headstone includes the name of her most famous role, Aunt Bee and reads, To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die
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Gene Barry
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Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry was born Eugene Klass on June 14,1919, in New York City, Barry grew up in Brooklyn and attended New Utrecht High School. On October 22,1944, at age 25, Barry married Betty Claire Kalb, Kalb was an actress known by the stage name Julie Carson. Barry chose his name in honor of John Barrymore and made his Broadway debut as Captain Paul Duval in the 1942 revival of Sigmund Rombergs The New Moon. In 1950, Barry began appearing on TV with the NBC Television Opera Theatre, in 1955, he appeared on the CBS Television anthology series Appointment with Adventure. While the show was canceled in 1956, Barrys character—a ladies man with expensive tastes—served as the model for three shows in which he starred. Bat Masterson, a recounting of the life of the real-life U. S. Marshal, gambler. In his next TV series, Burkes Law, Barry played a homicide investigator who was chauffeured in his limousine as he solved crimes. This series was broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20,1963, for his performance in it, Barry won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1965. In 1966, the year of the series, the title of the show changed to Amos Burke. According to his co-star Gary Conway, who played Det, tilson in the series, the two actually had a lot of fun, on- and off-camera, despite having some difficulties with each other. After Conway left the show, he remained friends with Barry, Barrys third TV series was called The Name of the Game, in which he played the sophisticated publisher of a family of magazines, and he was one of three lead characters on the series. The other two actors were Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa, who rotated with Barry week by week as the primary character in each weeks program. This series was shown by NBC from 1968 to 1971, one of the magazines that Barrys character published was called People magazine, several years before the actual People magazine entered publication. Shortly before the filming of The Name of the Game series began, Barry played the villain—a wealthy psychiatrist— in Prescription, Murder, in 1972, Barry starred in the ITV television series The Adventurer, along with Barry Morse and Catherine Schell. He played Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means, Barry returned to Broadway acting on two occasions—in 1962 in The Perfect Setup, and in 1983 in the Broadway premiere of the musical La Cage aux Folles. For his portrayal of Georges, Barry was nominated for a Tony Award, for his contribution to live theatre, Gene Barry received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6555 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Barry died on December 9,2009 at Sunrise Senior Living in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of ninety
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Hugh Beaumont
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Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church, Beaumont is best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963. He also sold Christmas trees and would rush home to his farm in Minnesota when production ended and this is why a different voice playing Ward narrated some episodes. He had earlier played the role of the private detective Michael Shayne in a series of films in the 1940s, Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas. His parents were Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, after graduating from Baylor School, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he attended the University of Chattanooga, where he played football. He later studied at the University of Southern California and graduated with a Master of Theology degree in 1946, in 1942, he married Kathryn Adams Doty, an actress who later earned a masters degree in educational psychology and had a career as a psychologist. The couple had three children, Hunter, Kristy, and Mark and she wrote two novels, A Long Year of Silence and Wild Orphan. A third book, Becoming the Mother of Me, described her growing up as a ministers daughter, her move to Hollywood. She died on October 14,2016, aged 96, Beaumont began his career in show business in 1931 by performing in theaters, nightclubs and radio. He began acting in motion pictures in 1940, appearing in three dozen films. Many of these roles were bit parts and minor roles and were not credited and he often worked with the actor William Bendix. In 1946–47, Beaumont starred in five films as the private detective Michael Shayne, in 1950 he narrated a short film, A Date with Your Family. From 1950 to 1953, Beaumont was the narrator of the Reed Hadley series, Racket Squad, based on the cases of a detective, Captain John Braddock. In a 1953 episode of Adventures of Superman called The Big Squeeze, Beaumont played an ex-convict with a wife, in 1952, he played the role of Rev. Randy Roberts in an episode of The Lone Ranger. In Hadleys second series, The Public Defender, which aired on CBS in 1954 and 1955, consistent with his interest in the clergy, Beaumont played the Reverend Clifton R. Pond in an episode of the religious anthology series Crossroads. He appeared in one of the episodes of the CBS Western series My Friend Flicka and was a guest star in an episode of Frank Lovejoys detective series. In 1955, he was a guest star in the Lassie episode The Well and he played Mr. Saunders, a water company executive interested in purchasing the Miller familys well. In July,1957, Beaumont played a sympathetic characterization of the Western bandit Jesse James on Tales of Wells Fargo, two months later he acquired his best-known role as the philosophy-dispensing suburban father Ward Cleaver, on the sitcom television series Leave It to Beaver
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Barbara Billingsley
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Barbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress. Billingsley was born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22,1915, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Lillian Agnes and Robert Collyer Combes and she had one elder sibling, Elizabeth. Her parents divorced sometime before her birthday, and her father. After her divorce, Lillian Combes went to work as a foreman at a knitting mill. After attending Los Angeles Junior College for one year, Billingsley traveled to Broadway, when Straw Hat, when the show closed, after five days, she took an apartment on 57th Street and went to work as a $60–a–week fashion model. In 1941, she married Glenn Billingsley, Sr and she landed a contract with MGM Studios in 1945 and moved with her husband to Los Angeles the following year. That same year, Glenn Billingsley opened a restaurant there and she had mostly uncredited roles in major motion pictures in the 1940s. These roles continued into the first half of the 1950s with supporting roles in Three Guys Named Mike, opposite Jane Wyman, The Bad and the Beautiful, and the science-fiction film Invaders from Mars. In 1952, Billingsley had her first role as a guest star, in an episode of The Abbott, in 1955, she won a co-starring role in the sitcom Professional Father, starring Stephen Dunne and Beverly Washburn. The following year, Billingsley had a role on The Brothers. In 1957, she co–starred opposite Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy in The Careless Years, her first, Billingsley appeared in guest roles on The Pride of the Family, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Letter to Loretta, You Are There, and Cavalcade of America. She appeared on Make Room for Daddy on January 14,1957, in the episode Dannys Date and it debuted on CBS in 1957, to mediocre ratings. The show was picked up by ABC the following year and became a hit, the show was broadcast in over 100 countries. In the show, Billingsley often could be seen doing household chores wearing pearls, the pearls, which in real life were Billingsleys trademark, were, in turn, her idea to have her alter ego wear on television. The actress had what she termed a hollow on her neck, in later seasons, she started wearing high heels to compensate for the fact that the actors playing her sons were getting taller than she was. The pearl necklace was so associated with the character that an entire episode of the sequel series dealt with the necklace when it was lost. Billingsley had one regret about the shows lasting success, residual payments ended after six reruns in standard 1950s actors contracts and she was the ideal mother, Billingsley said of her character in 1997 in TV Guide. Some people think she was weakish, but I dont and she was the love in that family
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Charles Bronson
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Charles Bronson was an American film and television actor. He starred in such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic. He was often cast in the role of an officer, gunfighter. He had long collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson, in 1965, he was featured as Major Wolenski in Battle of the Bulge. His father was a Lithuanian immigrant and his mother was an American of Lithuanian descent and his father, Valteris P. Bučinskis, hailed from the town of Druskininkai. Bronsons mother, Mary Valinsky, whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the mining town of Tamaqua. He learned to speak English when he was a teenager, before that, Bronson was the first member of his family to graduate from high school. When Bronson was 10 years old, his father died, Young Charles went to work in the coal mines, first in the mining office and then in the mine. He later said he earned one dollar for each ton of coal that he mined and he worked in the mine until he entered military service during World War II. His family was so poor that at one time, he said and he flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart for wounds received in battle. After the end of World War II, Bronson worked at odd jobs until joining a theatrical group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later shared an apartment in New York City with Jack Klugman while both were aspiring to play on the stage, in 1950, he married and moved to Hollywood, where he enrolled in acting classes and began to find small roles. Bronsons first film role — an uncredited one — was as a sailor in Youre in the Navy Now in 1951, other early screen appearances were in Pat and Mike, Miss Sadie Thompson and House of Wax. In 1952, Bronson boxed in a ring with Roy Rogers in Rogers show Knockout and he appeared on an episode of The Red Skelton Show as a boxer in a skit with Skelton playing Cauliflower McPugg. He also had a part credited as Charles Buchinsky in a western named Riding Shotgun, in 1954, Bronson made a strong impact in Drum Beat as a murderous Modoc warrior, Captain Jack, who relishes wearing the tunics of soldiers he has killed. In 1957, Bronson was cast in the Western series Colt.45 as an outlaw named Danny Arnold in the episode Young Gun. He scored the lead in his own ABCs detective series Man with a Camera, in which he portrayed Mike Kovac, Bronson starred alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in a Twilight Zone episode. He appeared in five episodes of Richard Boones Have Gun – Will Travel, in 1958, he was cast in his first lead film role in Roger Cormans Machine-Gun Kelly, followed by the lead role in the World War II film When Hell Broke Loose later the same year
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Argentina Brunetti
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Argentina Brunetti was an Argentine stage and film actress and writer. Brunetti was born Argentina Ferrau in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian parents, in 1937, she was placed under contract to MGM and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer into Italian. She became a narrator for the Voice of America, interviewing American movie stars for broadcast in Italy, at the same time, she made her movie debut in the classic Its a Wonderful Life as Mrs. Martini. She hosted a weekly weblog on the Internet called Argentina Brunettis Hollywood Stories, which her son plans to continue running and she wed Miro Brunetti, a foreign correspondent in Hollywood. The two helped to co-found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the couple had one son, Mario. She moved to Rome in 2004 to be with her family and died there from natural causes on December 20,2005, grandma Petrelli General Hospital TV series. Filomena Soltini 1st & Ten Joanie Loves Chachi, Aunt Gina The Quest Evita Peron. Zi Jule Tenspeed and Brown Shoe Fantasy Island, landlady Temperatures Rising The Streets of San Francisco. Mrs. Bernaducci To Rome with Love, ritas Aunt The Shakiest Gun in the West. Yaqui woman The Andy Griffith Show, Mrs. Sanchez Stage to Thunder Rock. Sarita 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Mrs. Severino in Back to Ballymora, Mrs. Molletti in Cornelius Come Home The Gallant Men. Mother Superior in A Place to Die The Pigeon That Took Rome, relative at Easter Dinner The Horizontal Lieutenant. Mrs. Ramirez The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mrs. Alemada The Lawless Years Route 66. Berta Alcoa Presents, One Step Beyond, Mrs. Voltaire Tales of Wells Fargo COronado 9. Mamma Zorich Wanted, Dead or Alive, Mrs. Moretti Jet Over the Atlantic. Mrs. Doris Michaels Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, tina DAlessio The Adventures of Jim Bowie. Tri Rosa Duel at Apache Wells, Mrs. Salvatori Telephone Time Anything Goes. Suzanne Celebrity Playhouse Matinee Theatre The 20th Century-Fox Hour, Mrs. Rosa Hernandez TV Readers Digest
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Ellen Burstyn
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Ellen Burstyn is an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the decade included several films. Burstyn is one of the few performers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting, in 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie and she has described her ancestry as Irish, French, Pennsylvania Dutch, a little Canadian Indian. Burstyn has a brother, Jack, and a younger brother. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her brothers and she attended Cass Technical High School, a university-preparatory school which allowed students to choose a specific field of study. In high school, she was a cheerleader, a member of the student council and she dropped out of high school during her senior year after failing her classes. After dropping out of school, Burstyn got a job as a model in a Detroit department store and she later relocated to Dallas, where she continued modeling before traveling to New York City. From 1955 to 1956, Burstyn appeared as an away we go dancing girl on The Jackie Gleason Show under the name Erica Dean. Burstyn then decided to become an actress and chose the name Ellen McRae as her professional name, Burstyn debuted on Broadway in 1957 and joined Lee Strasbergs The Actors Studio in New York City in 1967. In 1975, she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in the comedy Same Time, during 1964-1965, she had a recurring role as Dr. Kate Bartok on the NBC daytime television soap opera The Doctors. In 1967-1968, she co-starred as Julie Parsons opposite Dale Robertson in the ABC Western The Iron Horse and she was credited as Ellen McRae until 1967, when she and her then-husband Neil Nephew both changed their surname to Burstyn and she began to be credited as Ellen Burstyn. In 1971, Burstyn received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the drama film The Last Picture Show, during the filming of The Exorcist, she injured her coccyx, which led to permanent injury to her spine. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her performance in the drama Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. She also received Best Actress nominations in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for the drama Resurrection, and for the drama Requiem for a Dream in 2000. In 1977, she was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival, Burstyn hosted NBCs Saturday Night Live, a late-night sketch comedy and variety show, in December 1980. In 1990, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, from 2000 to 2002, Burstyn appeared in the CBS television drama Thats Life. In January 2006, she starred as an Episcopal bishop in the NBC comedy-drama series The Book of Daniel, conservative groups including American Family Association and Focus on the Family urged supporters to complain to NBC affiliates that carried the show
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Mae Clark
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Mae Clarke born Violet Mary Klotz was an American actress. Both films were released in 1931, mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was a theater organist and she studied dancing as a child and began on stage in vaudeville and also worked in night clubs. Mae Clarke started her career as a dancer in New York City. She subsequently starred in films for Universal Studios, including the original screen version of The Front Page. Clarke played the role of Henry Frankensteins fiancee, Elizabeth, who is attacked by the Monster, on her wedding day. The Public Enemy, released that year, contained one of cinemas most famous scenes, in which James Cagney pushes a half grapefruit into Clarkes face. Clarke appeared as Myra Deauville in the 1931 pre-Code version of Waterloo Bridge, Clarke also appeared in the modest pre-code Universal film Night World, with Lew Ayres, Boris Karloff, Hedda Hopper, and George Raft. By the mid-1930s, Clarke was no longer a leading lady and was featured in small parts through to the 1960s. In the early 1930s Clarkes face had been left partially scarred as a result of a car crash, in 1949 Clarke was the female lead of Republic Pictures 12-chapter movie serial King of the Rocket Men that introduced their popular atomic rocket-powered hero. On television, Clarke acted in the series Perry Mason and Batman, Clarke was married and divorced three times, to Fanny Brices brother Lew Brice, Stevens Bancroft, and Herbert Langdon. Early in her career, Clarke and Joan Crawford were roommates, Clarke died from cancer on April 29,1992, at age 81, in Woodland Hills, California. She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
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Mike Connors
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He also starred in the short-lived series Tightrope. and Todays FBI. Connors acting career spanned six decades, in addition to his work on television, he appeared in numerous films, but Not Serious, in which he and Robert Redford played American soldiers taken prisoner by a German villager played by Alec Guinness. Of Armenian descent, Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in Fresno and his father was Krekor Ohanian and his mother was Alice. They married in 1920 and had three children, Dorthy M. Arpesri A. and Krekor and he was an avid basketball player in high school, who was nicknamed Touch by his teammates. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces, after the war, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a basketball scholarship, where he briefly played under coach John Wooden. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, wellman got him into acting after noticing his expressive face while Connors was playing basketball. He appeared on the Los Angeles CBS station as Touch Connors in an episode of Jukebox Jury before the program went national via ABC in 1953. Connors is credited in his films, such as Sudden Fear, Island in the Sky, Swamp Women, Five Guns West, The Day the World Ended, Shake, Rattle and Rock, and Flesh. Connors recalled in an interview that he was renamed by Henry Willson, saying that Ohanian was too close to the actor George OHanlon and his film career started in the early 1950s. Connors was cast in the critically acclaimed John Wayne film, Island in the Sky in which he was a crewman on one of the search-and-rescue planes, in 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMilles The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston and he appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode Tomas and the Widow of the NBC Western anthology series Frontier. He guest-starred on the sitcoms, Hey, Jeannie. In 1958, Connors appeared in the role of the episode Simon Pitt. He also appeared in another NBC Western series, The Californians, about this time, he also appeared on an episode of NBCs Western series Cimarron City. An episode of Studio 57 starring Connors and titled Getaway Car was proposed as a pilot for a series about the CHP to be called Motorcycle Cop. Connors also co-starred in the classic 1956 Roger Corman sci-fi film, The Day The World Ended, later, he was cast in the episode The Aerialist of the anthology series, Alcoa Presents, One Step Beyond. In 1963, he guest-starred as Jack Marson in the episode Shadow of the Cougar on the NBC modern Western series, Redigo, starring Richard Egan. In 1964, Connors appeared in a role for Raymond Burr as attorney Joe Kelly in the Perry Mason episode
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Chuck Connors
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Kevin Joseph Aloysius “Chuck” Connors was an American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman. Connors was raised Roman Catholic and served as a boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn. Connors had one sibling, a sister, Gloria, Connors did not like his first name and was seeking another one. He tried out Lefty and Stretch before settling on Chuck, because while playing first base, he would yell, Chuck it to me, baby. The rest of his teammates and fans soon caught on and the name stuck and he loved the Brooklyn Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s, and hoped to someday join the team himself. Connors athletic abilities earned him scholarships to the Adelphi Academy and Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, which he left after two years. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during his Army service, Connors moonlighted as a professional basketball player, joining the Rochester Royals and helping to lead them to the 1946 National Basketball League championship. Connors took a shot that caught the front of the rim of an improperly installed glass backboard during the Celtics warm up at Boston Arena on November 5,1946, Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseballs Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1949. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 1951, playing in 66 games as a first baseman, in 1952, he was sent to the minor leagues again to play for the Cubs top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. He was drafted into American Football by the NFLs Chicago Bears, Connors can be seen in the Associated Press photo with Drysdale, Koufax and Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi announcing the pitchers new contracts. Connors was listed as 6 foot 5 inches when he played baseball, Connors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGM casting director and subsequently signed for the 1952 Tracy–Hepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1953, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman, Connors had a rare comedic role in a 1955 episode of The Adventures of Superman. He portrayed Sylvester J. Superman, a lanky rustic yokel who shared the name as the title character of the series. Connors was cast as Lou Brissie, a professional baseball player wounded during World War II
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Jackie Coogan
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John Leslie Jackie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Charlie Chaplins film classic The Kid made him one of the first child stars in film history, Coogan would continue to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying Uncle Fester in the 1960s TV series The Addams Family. He was born as John Leslie Coogan in 1914 in Los Angeles, California, to John Henry Coogan, Jr. and he began performing as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinners Baby. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in the Orpheum Theatre, a house in Los Angeles, on the stage doing the shimmy. Coogans father was also an actor, as was his younger brother, Jackie Coogan was a natural mimic and delighted Chaplin with his abilities. Chaplin cast him in a role in A Days Pleasure. He was Chaplins irascible companion in The Kid and the year played the title role in Oliver Twist. Coogan was one of the first stars to be heavily merchandised, peanut butter, stationery, whistles, dolls, records, and figurines were among the Coogan-themed merchandise on sale. Coogan was tutored until the age of ten, when he entered Urban Military Academy and he attended several colleges, as well as the University of Southern California. In 1932, he dropped out of Santa Clara University because of poor grades, after several demands for a $40,000 ransom, police arrested Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in San Jose. Thurmond admitted that Hart had been murdered the night he was kidnapped, both killers were transferred to a prison in downtown San Jose. A mob broke into the jail, and Thurmond and Holmes were hanged in a nearby park, Coogan was reported to be present and to have held the lynching rope. The party was returning from a day of hunting over the border in Mexico in early May. With his father at the wheel, the car was forced off the highway near Pine Valley by an oncoming vehicle. As a child star, Coogan earned an estimated $3 to $4 million, when he turned 21 in October 1935, his fortune was believed to be well intact. His assets had been managed by his father, who had died in the car accident less than six months earlier. However, Coogan found that the amount had been spent by his mother and stepfather, Arthur Bernstein, on fur coats, diamonds and other jewelry. Bernstein had been an advisor for the family and married Coogans mother in late 1936
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Johnny Crawford
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John Ernest Johnny Crawford is an American character actor, singer, and musician. At age 12, Crawford rose to fame for playing Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain, in the popular ABC Western series, The Rifleman, Crawford first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. Crawford was born in Los Angeles, the son of Betty and Robert Lawrence Crawford and his maternal grandparents were Belgian, his maternal grandfather was violinist Alfred Eugene Megerlin. In 1959, Johnny, his older brother Robert L. Crawford, Jr. a co-star of NBCs Laramie series, one of The Walt Disney Companys original Mouseketeers, in 1955, Crawford has acted on stage, in films, and on television. Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers, however, at the end of the first season, the studio reduced the number to 12, and Crawford was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the role in a Lux Video Theatre production of Little Boy Lost. He also appeared in the popular Western series The Lone Ranger, in 1956, following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. The third pilot, which was made as an episode of Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater, was picked up by ABC, throughout The Riflemans five seasons, a remarkable on-screen chemistry existed between Connors and Crawford in the depiction of their father-son relationship. They were still close friends when Connors died on November 10,1992 and his other hits included Rumors, Your Nose is Gonna Grow, and Proud. Late in 1961, Crawford appeared as Victor in the episode A Very Bright Boy of the ABC sitcom and his brother Robert had also been a guest star on The Donna Reed Show. Once in 1964 and once in 1965, Crawford appeared on the NBC education drama Mr. Novak, among his films, Crawford played an American Indian in the unique adventure film, Indian Paint. He played a character involved with a young girl played by Kim Darby in The Restless Ones. He played a young deputy Billy Norris, in The Big Valley episode The Other Face Of Justice in 1969, while enlisted in the United States Army for two years, Crawford worked on training films as a production coordinator, assistant director, script supervisor, and occasional actor. His rank was sergeant at the time of his discharge in December 1967. In 1968, Crawford played a soldier wanted for murder in By the Numbers, the Resurrection of Broncho Billy was a USC student film Crawford agreed to do as a favor to his close friend, producer John Longenecker. It won the 1970 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject, the Naked Ape was a partially animated 1973 feature film starring Crawford and Victoria Principal, produced by Hugh Hefner. In 1976, Johnny Crawford co-starred as Ben Shelby in the episode of season three of Little House on the Prairie, The Hunters. In 1985, Crawford appeared as Noah Paisley, sheriffs deputy, in an episode of Murder, since 1992, Crawford has led a California-based vintage dance orchestra which performs at special events
