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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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Nelson Olmsted of NBC's Sleep No More fantasy series.
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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 Carlson in 1940
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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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Richard Donner, July 2006.
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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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The Love of Zero (publicity still)
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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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Norman Foster
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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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John Newland
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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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Loretta Young
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From the trailer for
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
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Young in 1938
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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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Diagram showing a single-camera setup.
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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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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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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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A black-and-white photo of a
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Black-and-white photography of Frankfurt central station
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Contemporary photo of a
Galápagos tortoise (
Chelonoidis nigra) on
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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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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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The
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Second Continental Congress in 1776
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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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Janet Gaynor was the first winner in this category for her roles in
7th Heaven (1927),
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and
Street Angel (1928).
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Norma Shearer won in 1930 for her performance in
The Divorcee.
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Katharine Hepburn has the most wins in this category for her roles in
Morning Glory (1933),
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),
The Lion in Winter (1968), and
On Golden Pond (1981).
Academy Award for Best Actress
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Bette Davis won two awards from ten nominations for her roles in
Dangerous (1935) and
Jezebel (1938).
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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
Listerine
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Glass bottle with paper label. The screw top indicates that the bottle was manufactured post-1920s.
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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
Christmas
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A
depiction of the
Nativity of Jesus with a
Christmas tree backdrop
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Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst depicts the nativity of
Jesus
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Eastern Orthodox icon of the birth of Christ by
St. Andrei Rublev, 15th century
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Nativity of Christ – medieval illustration from the
Hortus deliciarum of
Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)
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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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Kovacs on the set of his television show, 1956
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Kovacs and Gertrude on 3 To Get Ready, 1951. Gertrude was one of the donations of Kovacs' viewers when he asked them to bring anything they no longer wanted to the WPTZ-TV lobby.
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Both Gertrude and Kovacs' close associate Andy McKay made the move to New York with Kovacs in 1952. The mask McKay is wearing was fashioned out of masking tape.
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Barbara Loden and Kovacs positioned in front of two television cameras for illusion
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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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Candid Camera
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
CBS
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
CBS
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
CBS
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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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
Julie Adams
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Adams with
Andy Griffith, in 1962 card
Julie Adams
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Julie Adams and
Jack Kelly in
Maverick
Julie Adams
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Julie Adams was famously menaced by the Gill-man in the 1954 horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon
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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
John Agar
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circa 1960
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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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Claude Akins
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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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Anna Maria Alberghetti 1958 photo
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Alberghetti in
Carnival!
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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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Eddie Albert
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Albert and Grace Bradt applying makeup for their first TV appearance, November 1936.
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Eddie Albert in
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
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Eddie Albert's grave
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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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Audley in costume concept for the role of
Maleficent in
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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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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Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1959
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Pavan and Aumont in 1965.
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Aumont at the
1993 Cannes Film Festival.
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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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Frances Bavier in 1964.
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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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Barry in 1959.
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Gene Barry as
Bat Masterson
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With
Robert Stack and
Tony Franciosa in
The Name of the Game (1968-1971)
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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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Beaumont in 1956.
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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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Barbara Billingsley and
Hugh Beaumont as
June and
Ward Cleaver in
Leave It to Beaver
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Cast of
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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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Publicity photo, 1966
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Bronson's star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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At the 1987
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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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Burstyn at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival première of
Poliwood, May 1, 2009
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Burstyn at the
2007 Toronto International Film Festival, September 2007
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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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in
Lady Killer (1933)
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In
Tod Browning 's
Fast Workers (1933)
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Clarke in the daytime drama
General Hospital (1963) with
John Beradino
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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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Mike Connors
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Connors with
Gail Fisher in a publicity photo for Mannix, 1970
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Connors with
Genevieve Gilles in a publicity photo for Mannix, 1973
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Connors with
Eddie Egan in a publicity photo for Mannix, 1972
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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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Chuck Connors in 1974.
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Connors as a Dodger.
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Publicity still of Connors for The Rifleman, 1962
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Connors with Johnny Crawford, 1960
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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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Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family, 1966
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Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid
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Coogan in 1920
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Coogan's grave at
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
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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
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Johnny Crawford in
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Hume Cronyn
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Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr. OC was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years. Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario and his father, Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr. was a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London. His mother, Frances Amelia, was an heiress of the company of the same name. His great-uncle, Benjamin, Jr. Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, Cronyn was the first Elmwood School boarder and boarded at Elmwood between 1917 and 1921. After leaving Elmwood, Cronyn went to Ridley College in St. Catharines, and McGill University in Montreal, early in life, Cronyn was an amateur featherweight boxer, having the skills to be nominated for Canadas 1932 Olympic Boxing team. In 1934, the year he joined The Lambs, he made his Broadway debut as a janitor in Hippers Holiday and became known for his versatility. He won a Drama Desk Special Award in 1986, in 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His first Hollywood film was Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt and he later appeared in Hitchcocks Lifeboat and worked on the screenplays of Rope and Under Capricorn. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in The Seventh Cross, Cronyn bought the screenplay What Nancy Wanted from Norma Barzman, who was later blacklisted with her husband Ben Barzman, with the idea of producing the film and starring Tandy. However, he sold the screenplay to RKO which later filmed it as The Locket, Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Kill With Kindness and Hawaii Five-O episodes Over Fifty, Steal and Odd Man In. In 1990 he won an Emmy award for his role in the TV Movie Age Old Friends, the show was scheduled to move from radio to television, with Cronyn producing as well as acting in the show. However, Tandy suffered a miscarriage and the debut was delayed a week. The series premiered in July 1954 to warm and enthusiastic reviews, the couple had a daughter, Tandy, and a son, Christopher. Cronyn and Tandy lived in the Bahamas, then at an estate in Pound Ridge, New York. Jessica Tandy died in 1994, aged 85, from ovarian cancer, after he was widowed, Cronyn married author/playwright Susan Cooper in July 1996. His 1991 autobiography was titled A Terrible Liar and he died on June 15,2003, one month before his 92nd birthday. In 1979, Cronyn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, on July 11,1988 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, giving him the Post Nominal Letters OC for Life. Cronyn was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 1999 and he also received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992 and the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002
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Cronyn in Lifeboat, 1944
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Pat Crowley
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Patricia Pat Crowley is an American actress. Crowley was born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Helen and her sister Ann was also an actress. Crowley played Sally Carver in the film Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and she starred as Doctor Autumn Claypool alongside Martin and Lewis in Money from Home, and in their final film together Hollywood or Bust, in which she played Terry Roberts. Her roles in Forever Female and Money from Home led to her receiving the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress. She also co-starred with Rosemary Clooney in a 1954 musical, Red Garters, novak, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. 87th Precinct, and Wanted, Dead or Alive and she changed her billing for various Maverick episodes from Patricia Crowley to Pat Crowley and back again. She starred from 1965 to 1967 as Joan Nash in the NBC-MGM television sitcom Please Dont Eat the Daisies, based on the 1957 book by Jean Kerr, Crowley sang and danced on The Dean Martin Show. She became known to an era of television viewers for her roles on the serials Generations from 1989–90, Port Charles from 1997 to 2003, and The Bold. She appeared as Emily Fallmont on ten episodes of the soap opera Dynasty in 1986. More recently, Crowley portrayed the widow of baseballs Roger Maris in the biopic 61* and she appeared in a 2006 episode of The Closer and a 2009 episode of Cold Case. Throughout her career, she was confused with actress Kathleen Crowley, who appeared in practically all of the same TV series during the same time frame, though they never appeared together
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Crowley in 1965
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Pat Crowley with
Elliott Reid (1959)
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Crowley with
Richard Denning in
Michael Shayne (1961)
40.
Jane Darwell
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Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. Her father objected, however, and she compromised by becoming an actress, the Jane Darwell Birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Some sources give Darwells birth name as Patti Woodward and she took up voice culture and the piano followed by a course in dramatics. At one point, she decided to enter a convent but instead changed her mind, Darwell began acting in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. She appeared in almost twenty films over the two years before returning to the stage. After a 15-year absence from films, she resumed her career in 1930 with a role in Tom Sawyer. Short, stout, and plain, she was quickly cast in a succession of films usually as the mother of one of the major characters and she also appeared in five Shirley Temple films, usually as the housekeeper or grandmother. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a contract player with 20th Century Fox, Darwell was memorably cast in The Ox-Bow Incident, and occasionally starred in B movies and played featured parts in scores of major films. Darwell had noted appearances on the stage as well, in 1944, she was popular in the stage comedy Suds in Your Eye, in 1954, Darwell appeared with Andy Clyde in the episode Santas Old Suit of the series, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse. This same episode was re-run the following Christmas 1955 on Studio 57, in 1959, she appeared with child actor Roger Mobley in the episode Mr. Rushs Secretary on the NBC western series, Buckskin, starring Tom Nolan and Sally Brophy. She guest starred on John Bromfields crime drama in a western setting. On July 27,1961, Darwell appeared as Grandmother McCoy in an episode of the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys, Darwell was fifteen years older than son, Walter Brennan. Pat Buttram and Henry Jones appeared in this episode as Cousin Carl and Jed McCoy, Darwells final role as the old woman feeding the birds in Mary Poppins was personally assigned to her by Walt Disney. On February 8,1960, Darwell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion-picture industry, in her last years, Darwells health was poor. It took personal persuasion from Walt Disney for her to appear in Disneys Mary Poppins as she was, by then, tired, frail and in her middle eighties. Darwell died August 13,1967, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills and she is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jane Darwell at the Internet Movie Database Jane Darwell at the Internet Broadway Database Jane Darwell at Find a Grave
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Darwell in the play A Doll's House, 1945.
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Laraine Day
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Laraine Day was an American actress and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star. Day was born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, one of eight children in an affluent Mormon family and she had a twin brother, Lamar. The family later moved to California where she began her career with the Long Beach Players. She was a 1938 graduate of Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, in 1937, Day debuted onscreen in a bit part in Stella Dallas. Shortly afterwards, she won lead roles in several George OBrien westerns at RKO, in which she was billed as Laraine Hays and then Laraine Johnson. Her roles for other studios were far more stimulating than those MGM gave her, including a prominent supporting part in the Irish melodrama My Son. She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent with Joel McCrea, and the psychological mystery The Locket with Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, in 1941 she was voted the number one star of tomorrow in Hollywood. She was paired opposite major film stars, including Lana Turner, Cary Grant, and John Wayne, during a time when she had a break in her film career she made her stage debut opposite Gregory Peck in the national theatre tour of Angel Street. She also made stage appearances in Lost Horizon, the 1973 revival of The Women. In the 1940s she made guest appearances on radio in both Lux Radio Theatre and The Screen Guild Theater, days first marriage was to singer-turned-airport executive, James Ray Hendricks in 1942. The couple adopted three children, Christopher, Angela and Michelle, Day filed for divorce from Hendricks in December 1946. Day was granted a divorce from Hendricks on January 20,1947. On January 21,1947, Day traveled to Juarez, Mexico where she received a divorce decree. Later that day, she traveled to El Paso, Texas, after waiting approximately one year, Day and Durocher remarried on February 16,1948, in Santa Monica, California. During her marriage to Durocher, Day was often referred to as The First Lady of Baseball, while Durocher was managing the New York Giants, she wrote the book Day With the Giants. In 1952, she wrote and published book entitled The America We Love. She was also the host of Day With the Giants, a 15-minute television interview program broadcast before New York Giants home games, Day and Durocher divorced in June 1960. On March 7,1961, Day married television producer Michael Grilikhes and she and Grilikhes had two daughters, Dana Laraine and Gigi
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In Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Elinor Donahue
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Donahue was born in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of Doris Genevieve and Thomas William Donahue. Appearing in dancing-chorus film roles from the age of five, Donahue was at one point a ballet-school classmate of future Fred Astaire partner Barrie Chase. She was an actress working in vaudeville and had several bit parts in movies as a teenager, including Love Is Better Than Ever. She played one of the daughters in Three Daring Daughters in 1948, Donahue achieved stardom for her role as the elder daughter, Betty, on the television family series Father Knows Best. Her co-stars were Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray as her brother, James Bud Anderson, Jr. and Lauren Chapin as her younger sister. Donahue was a judge in ABCs Jukebox Jury. While in the first season of Father Knows Best she also appeared on The Ray Bolger Show, thereafter, she was cast with James Best, Ann Doran, and J. Carrol Naish in the 1956 episode The White Carnation of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. She guest starred on an episode of U. S. Marshal and she also appeared as a new bride in the The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show episode titled The Newlyweds that aired April 2,1956. She played Georgiana Balanger in the episode Dennis and the Wedding on Dennis the Menace, Donahue was also cast, in 1960, with Marion Ross in an episode of The Brothers Brannagan. She played Miriam Welby on ABCs The Odd Couple, Jane Mulligan on Mulligans Stew and she was featured in 12 episodes of CBSs The Andy Griffith Show as pharmacist Ellie Walker, even getting a mention in the opening credits. The character was intended to be a love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, additionally, on February 9,1963, she played Letty May in the episode The Burning Tree on Have Gun Will Travel. She guest-appeared on Star Trek in the second-season episode Metamorphosis as commissioner Nancy Hedford, in 1966, she guest starred on the A Man Called Shenahdoah TV series, episode 8, Town On Fire. Donahue portrayed Miriam Welby in 17 episodes of The Odd Couple, Donahue appeared in One Day at a Time, as Alexs mother Felicia. Donahue portrayed the sister of Sister Bertrille in three episodes of ABCs The Flying Nun, in 1977, she appeared in an episode of the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang. In 1978, Donahue starred in the NBC sitcom Please Stand By, in 1984, she made an appearance as Mrs. Broderick, the mother of a teenaged drug addict on the last season of Happy Days. In 1987, she played the characters mother in the short-lived Fox series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter. In 1988, she appeared in a Newhart episode and appeared on The Golden Girls as the newest wife of Dorothy Zbornaks ex-husband, in 1990, she played Bridget, a Beverly Hills clothing-store manager, in the film Pretty Woman. Donahue played Gladys, the mother of Chris Peterson, in all 35 episodes of the sitcom Get a Life, in 1992, she voiced the mother on the Fox Kids animated series Eek. the Cat
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Donahue in 1960.
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Bobby Driscoll
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Robert Cletus Bobby Driscoll was an American child actor and artist known for a large body of cinema and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios most popular pictures of that period, such as Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart. He served as model and provided the voice for the title role in Peter Pan. In 1950, he received an Academy Juvenile Award for outstanding performance in films of 1949, for his roles in So Dear to My Heart and The Window. In the mid-1950s, Driscolls acting career began to decline, and he became addicted to narcotics, and was sentenced to prison for illicit drug use. After his release he focused his attention on the art scene. In ill health due to his abuse, and with his funds completely depleted, he died in 1968. He was born Robert Cletus Driscoll in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the child of Cletus, an insulation salesman, and Isabelle. Shortly after his birth, the moved to Des Moines. When a doctor advised the father to relocate to balmy California due to pulmonary ailments he was suffering from his handling of asbestos. Driscolls parents were encouraged to try to get Bobby into films and their barbers son, an actor, got Bobby an audition at MGM for a bit role in the 1943 family drama Lost Angel, which starred then up-and-coming Margaret OBrien. While on a tour across the lot, five-year-old Driscoll noticed a mock-up ship. The director was impressed by the curiosity and intelligence. With his natural acting and talent for memorizing lines at that young age, Driscoll and Luana Patten were the first two actors Walt Disney put under contract. Driscoll then played the character in 1946s Song of the South. Driscoll played Eddie Cantors screen son in the 1948 RKO Studios musical comedy If You Knew Susie, in which he teamed up with former Our Gang member Margaret Kerry. He and Patten appeared with Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers in the teaser for the Pecos Bill segment of Disneys cartoon compilation Melody Time. Driscoll was loaned to RKO to star in The Window, based on Cornell Woolrichs short story The Boy Cried Murder
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Bobby Driscoll, c. 1949
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Joanne Dru
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Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River and All the Kings Men. Born as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, Dru came to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by Al Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold On to Your Hats, when she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater. Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abies Irish Rose, over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television. She was often cast in films such as Howard Hawkss Red River, John Fords She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. She gave a performance in the dramatic film All the Kings Men and co-starred with Dan Dailey in The Pride of St. Louis. She appeared in the James Stewart drama Thunder Bay in 1953 and then a Martin and her film career petered out by the end of the 1950s, but she continued working frequently in television, most notably as Babs Wooten on the 1960-61 sitcom, Guestward, Ho. After Guestward, Ho. she appeared sporadically for the rest of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, with one film appearance, in Sylvia. For her contribution to the industry, Dru was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was the sister of Peter Marshall, an actor. Before moving to Hollywood, Dru met and married popular singer Dick Haymes in 1941, the couple had three children, Richard Ralph Haymes, Helen Joanna Haymes, Barbara Nugent Haymes. Divorced from Haymes in 1949, Dru married Red River and All the Kings Men co-star John Ireland less than a month later and she had no children from her marriage to Ireland, or subsequent two marriages. She was a staunch Republican and appeared at a 1968 GOP cocktail party fundraiser for Richard Nixon and she died in Los Angeles, California, September 10,1996, aged 74, from a respiratory ailment that developed from lymphedema, a swelling of the extremities. Her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean, Joanne Dru at the Internet Movie Database Joanne Dru at AllMovie Joanne Dru at the Internet Broadway Database
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Joanne Dru
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James Drury
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Drury was born on April 18,1934, in New York City, where his father James, Sr. was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up in both New York and Oregon, Drury contracted polio at the age of ten. In 1959, Drury was cast as Harding, Jr. in the episode Murder at the Mansion of Richard Diamond, on May 9,1959, early in his career, Drury appeared as Neal Adams in the episode Client Neal Adams of ABCs western series Black Saddle. In the story line, Adams is an old friend of series protagonist Clay Culhane, Adams has robbed a bank of $8,000 and was subsequently shot in the back by a pursuing bounty hunter, played by Charles Aidman. Adams asks Culhane for help and makes the claim that the bounty hunter is the brother of a man whom Adams had earlier killed in self-defense. On November 16,1960, Drury played young pioneer Justin Claiborne in the episode The Bleymier Story of NBCs Wagon Train, Robert Horton as the scout Flint McCullough struggles to get a wagon train through a Sioux burial ground. Dan Duryea played the mentally unstable Samuel Bleymier who is obsessed by demons and superstitions, in 1960, Drury portrayed Joe Darle in the episode Wall of Silence of the ABC/Warner Brothers detective series, Bourbon Street Beat, set in New Orleans and starring Andrew Duggan. He made a memorable guest appearance on the CBS drama series Perry Mason in 1961, as he played the role of musician and defendant Eddy King in The Case of the Missing Melody and he appeared in secondary roles for Walt Disney. In 1962, he was cast in a role as a lascivious gold prospector in the early Sam Peckinpah western Ride the High Country opposite Randolph Scott. Also, in 1962, Drury landed the leading role of the ranch foreman on The Virginian. In 1993, Drury had a role as Captain Tom Price on the first three episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, opposite Chuck Norris and Clarence Gilyard. Drury also had a role in the 2000 TV movie of The Virginian starring Bill Pullman. The film followed Wisters novel more closely than had the television series, in 1991, Drury was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 1997 and 2003, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, Drury was in the oil and natural gas business in Houston at the turn of the 21st century. His son, Timothy Drury, is a keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist who has played with the rock groups The Eagles, Drury was a close friend of the Houston marksman Joe Bowman, who trained numerous actors on how to use weapons. Drury is also the longtime best friend of both Robert Horton and Robert Fuller, since 1954, where the three met while under contract at MGM Studios, together, they attend the annual Festival of The West in Scottsdale, Arizona, among other Western Festivals. The Virginian Rowan and Martins Laugh-In – Twice Ironside – The Professionals -1971 Firehouse Walker, Texas Ranger – Three episodes as Captain Tom Price The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
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James Drury in 2006
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Irene Dunne
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Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron, Theodora Goes Wild, The Awful Truth, Love Affair, in 1985, Dunne was given Kennedy Center Honors for her services to the arts. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph John Dunn, an inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry. Irene Dunne would later write, No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the boats with my father. She was fourteen when her father died on April 6,1913 and she saved all of his letters and often remembered and lived by what he told her the night before he died, Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from lifes great stores, following her fathers death, Irene, her mother, and her younger brother Charles moved to her mothers hometown of Madison, Indiana. Dunnes mother taught her to play the piano as a small girl. According to Dunne, Music was as natural as breathing in our house, Dunne was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. Nicknamed Dunnie, she took piano and voice lessons, sang in local churches, Dunne earned a diploma to teach art, but took a chance on a contest and won a prestigious scholarship to the Chicago Musical College, where she graduated in 1926. With a soprano voice, she had hopes of becoming an opera singer, Irene, after adding an e to her surname, turned to musical theater. She toured several cities in 1921–22 playing the lead role in the popular play Irene. The following year, Dunne played a season of opera in Atlanta. Though in her own words Dunne created no great furor, by 1929 she had a successful Broadway career playing leading roles, grateful to be at center stage rather than in the chorus line. On July 16,1927, Dunne married Francis Griffin, a New York dentist, despite differing opinions and battles that raged furiously, Dunne eventually agreed to marry him and leave the theater. She was discovered by Hollywood while starring with the company of Show Boat in 1929. She signed a contract with RKO and appeared in her first movie in 1930, Leathernecking, already in her thirties when she made her first film, she would be in competition with younger actresses for roles, and found it advantageous to evade questions that would reveal her age. Her publicists encouraged the belief that she was born in 1901 or 1904, Dunne moved to Hollywood with her mother and brother and maintained a long-distance marriage with her husband in New York until he joined her in California in 1936. That year, she re-created her role as Magnolia in what is considered the film version of the famous musical Show Boat
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from the film Love Affair (1939)
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Dunne and Melvyn Douglas in
Theodora Goes Wild promotional poster (1936)
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Crypt of Irene Dunne at Calvary Cemetery (notice incorrect birth year)
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Shelley Fabares
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Michele Ann Marie Shelley Fabares is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reeds daughter Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show and she was Elvis Presleys co-star in three films. In 1962, her recording of Johnny Angel reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, michele Ann Marie Fabares was born in Santa Monica, California. She is the niece of actress Nanette Fabray, Fabares began acting at age three, and at age 10 made her television debut in an episode of Letter to Loretta. After guest-starring on various series, Fabares landed the role of Mary Stone in the long-running family sitcom The Donna Reed Show. Her national popularity led to a contract and two Top 40 hits, including Johnny Angel, which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1962. It sold over one million copies and was certified gold, Fabares left The Donna Reed Show in 1963 to pursue a film career. She appeared in a number of pictures, including three Elvis Presley movies, Girl Happy, Spinout, and Clambake, the most by any one actress. In two other 1960s movies, she played the love interest of Peter Noone of Hermans Hermits in Hold On. and of a young Hank Williams, Jr. in A Time to Sing. During the 1970s, Fabares appeared on television series, including Love, American Style, The Rockford Files, The Interns, Mannix, The Practice, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In 1971, she starred along with Billy Dee Williams and James Caan in the successful TV movie Brians Song, Caan played Piccolo, and she played his wife, Joy. In 1981, Fabares played Francine Webster on One Day at a Time, in 1989, she won the role of Christine Armstrong Fox on the ABC sitcom Coach. After Coach ended in 1997, Fabares voiced the role of Martha Ma Kent in Superman and she reprised the role twice, once for a 2003 episode of Justice League and again for the 2006 direct-to-video film Superman, Brainiac Attacks. Fabares was a friend of Annette Funicello, whom she met in catechism class in the seventh grade. She was at Annettes bedside with her family when she died of multiple sclerosis on April 8,2013, Fabares married record and movie producer Lou Adler in June 1964, separated in 1966, and was divorced in 1980. In 1984, she married actor Mike Farrell, and is stepmother to his two children, Erin and Michael, in October 2000, Fabares received a life-saving liver transplant after being diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis
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Fabares at the 1991 Emmy Awards
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Steve Forrest (actor)
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Steve Forrest was an American actor who was well known for his role as Lt. Hondo Harrelson in the short-lived television series S. W. A. T. Which ran from 1975 to 1976 and he was also known for his Razzie-winning performance in Mommie Dearest. He was born William Forrest Andrews in Huntsville, Texas and he was the son of Annis and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister. Forrest was the 12th of 13 children, one of his older brothers was film star Dana Andrews. Forrest enlisted in the United States Army at age 18 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, in 1950, he earned a bachelors degree with honors from the UCLA, majoring in theater with a minor in psychology. He worked as a stagehand at the La Jolla Playhouse outside San Diego, there Gregory Peck discovered him, cast him in La Jollas production of Goodbye Again, and then arranged for Forrests first screen test with MGM, where he was signed to a contract. Among Forrests notable films were So Big, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, The Longest Day, North Dallas Forty, and Mommie Dearest. He had cameo roles in the comedies Spies Like Us and Amazon Women on the Moon, and the 2003 film version of S. W. A. T. Forrest was also a trained vocalist, and he made his debut on Broadway as prizefighter Bob Stanton in the 1958 production of The Body Beautiful opposite Mindy Carson, Jack Warden and Brock Peters. In 1965, Forrest and his moved to London, where he starred as John Mannering in the title role of the British crime drama The Baron. His other television credits included The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Storefront Lawyers, Hollywood Wives, and Rod Serlings hour-long Twilight Zone episode The Parallel. On a 1969 episode of Gunsmoke titled Mannon he portrayed Will Mannon, then reprised the character 18 years later for the 1987 television film Gunsmoke, in the 1986-87 season of Dallas, Steve Forrest played Wes Parmalee, a man who claimed to be Jock Ewing. Forrest married Christine Carilas on December 23,1948 and they had three sons, Michael, Forrest and Stephen. A very accomplished golfer, Forrest often played in charity tournaments, including, on the American team, Forrest died on May 18,2013 in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 87, from undisclosed causes. Steve Forrest at the Internet Movie Database Steve Forrest at the Internet Broadway Database Steve Forrest at AllMovie Obituary - Hollywood Reporter Obituary - Dignity Memorial
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Steve Forrest in a publicity photo for
S.W.A.T. in 1975
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Nina Foch
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Nina Foch was a Dutch-American actress of film, stage, and television. Her career spanned six decades, consisting of over fifty feature films and she is perhaps best known for her roles in An American in Paris, Robert Wises Executive Suite, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Cecil B. DeMilles The Ten Commandments, and Stanley Kubricks Spartacus, Foch also worked extensively in television, making a multitude of appearances from 1951 until 2007. Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, to American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton and her parents divorced when she was a toddler and she and her mother moved to the United States, settling in New York City. As Foch grew up her mother encouraged her talents, she learned piano. After graduating from the Lincoln School, Foch attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, during this time, she was also a regular in John Housemans CBS Playhouse 90 television series. In 1951, Foch appeared with Gene Kelly in the musical An American in Paris, Foch appeared in Scaramouche as Marie Antoinette, and in Cecil B. DeMilles The Ten Commandments as Bithiah, the Pharaohs daughter who finds the infant Moses in the bulrushes, adopts him as her son, and joins him and the Hebrews in their Exodus from Egypt. In 1957, Foch was honored by the Maryland State Council of the American Jewish Congress with an award for her performance in The Ten Commandments. Foch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the boardroom drama Executive Suite, starring William Holden, Fredric March and Barbara Stanwyck. In Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, she played a woman who chooses gladiators to fight to the death in the ring, in 1961, she guest starred in the NBC series about the family divisions from American Civil War entitled The Americans. In 1963, she appeared on the NBC game show Your First Impression, in 1964, she played the title role in the episode Maggie, Queen of the Jungle of Craig Stevenss short-lived CBS drama series, Mr. Broadway. Foch was cast as Eva Frazier in the Outer Limits episode The Borderland and she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke as the widowed matriarch of a lawless town, and played in an episode on Combat. In the early 1970s, she guest starred on NBCs The Brian Keith Show, in 1975, Foch appeared in the film Mahogany, starring Diana Ross. She also appeared as Frannie Halcyon in the TV miniseries Tales of the City, another notable TV role was as the OverseerP Commander in the first of the Alien Nation TV movies, Alien Nation, Dark Horizon. In her final years, she appeared on the television series Just Shoot Me, Bull, Dharma & Greg, and NCIS, Foch taught Directing the Actor classes at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, classes she had taught since the 1960s up to her death. She also worked as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many prominent Hollywood directors, for her contributions to film and television, Foch has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard, and 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. Foch lived in Beverly Hills, California, for 40 years and her first marriage was to James Lipton, future host of Inside the Actors Studio
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Foch in 1949
50.
William Frawley
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William Clement Bill Frawley was an American stage entertainer and screen and television actor. Frawley is best known for starring as the landlord, Fred Mertz and he is also known for playing Bub in the television comedy series, My Three Sons. Frawley began his career in vaudeville in 1914 with his then-wife Edna Louise Broedt and their comedy act, known as Frawley and Louise, continued until their divorce in 1927. Frawley performed on Broadway multiple times and signed a contract with Paramount Studios in 1916 to play in silent films and he appeared in more than 100 films over 35 years. Frawley was reputed by fellow actors to be cantankerous and difficult and his bad temper led to problems with producers, he was once fired for punching another actor in the nose. When he got the call offering him the part of Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy, Frawley died on March 3,1966, from a heart attack suffered while walking home from seeing a movie. Frawley was born to Irish immigrants Michael A. Frawley and Mary E. Brady in Burlington, as a young boy, Frawley attended Roman Catholic school and sang with the St. Pauls Church choir. As he got older, he loved playing bit roles in theater productions. However, his mother, a woman, discouraged the idea. Frawley did two years of work at Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska. He later relocated to Chicago and found a job as a court reporter, soon thereafter, against his mothers wishes, Frawley obtained a singing part in the musical comedy The Flirting Princess. To appease his mother, Frawley relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, unfulfilled with his railroad job, Frawley longed to be an actor. He finally decided he could not resist and formed an act with his younger brother. Six months later, Frawleys mother told Paul to return to Iowa, during this period, Frawley wrote a script titled Fun in a Vaudeville Agency. He earned more than $500 for his efforts, after this, he decided to relocate to the West, settling in Denver. Frawley was hired as a singer at a café and teamed with pianist Franz Rath, the two men relocated to San Francisco with their act, A Man, a Piano, and a Nut. During his vaudeville career, Frawley introduced and helped popularize the songs My Mammy, My Melancholy Baby, in 1958, he recorded many of his old stage songs on the LP, Bill Frawley Sings the Old Ones. In 1965, he performed for the CBS-TV show Ive Got A Secret, Frawley began performing in Broadway theater
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Frawley in 1951, shortly before he assumed the role of Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.
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With
James Cagney in
Something to Sing About
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Cast members from left, standing: William Frawley, Desi Arnaz, seated: Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball.
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While appearing on My Three Sons, Frawley was the subject of
This Is Your Life in January 1961. He received a lifetime baseball pass from the Angels'
Fred Haney.
Fred MacMurray also was part of the show.
51.
Kathleen Freeman
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Kathleen Freeman was an American film, television, voice actress, and stage actress. In a career spanned more than fifty years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses. Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois and she began her career as a child, dancing in her parents vaudeville act. After a stint studying music at University of California, Los Angeles, she went into acting full-time, working on the stage and she was a founding member, in 1946, of the Circle Players at The Circle Theatre, now known as El Centro Theatre. Freeman made her debut in Wild Harvest. Freemans most notable role was an uncredited part in the 1952 musical Singin in the Rain, as Jean Hagens diction coach. Beginning with the 1954 film 3 Ring Circus, Freeman became a foil of Jerry Lewis. These included most of Lewiss better known comedies, including The Disorderly Orderly as Nurse Higgins, The Errand Boy as the bosss wife. Over 30 years later, she made a cameo appearance in Nutty Professor II. In addition to teaching acting classes in Los Angeles, Freeman was a presence on television. In 1958-59, she appeared three times on Buckskin, a program set in a hotel in a fictitious Montana town. She appeared from the 1950s until her death in regular or recurring roles on sitcoms, including six episodes of The Bob Cummings Show, Topper. Later, she was cast on Hogans Heroes as Frau Gertrude Linkmeyer, General Burkhalters sister, in 1973 she had a co-starring role alongside Dom DeLuise in the sitcom Lotsa Luck. She appeared in episodes of Wagon Train, Funny Face, I Dream of Jeannie, the short-lived prehistoric sitcom Its About Time, and as the voice of Peg Bundys mom. She played a female arm wrestler on Mamas Family, the script was originally written to have Mrs. Gordon return to Lucky Elementary School, but Freeman died before the episode was finished. The script was then re-written and Mrs. Gordon died as well, the episode was dedicated in Freemans memory. The dedication came at the end of the episode after announcement that Elaine Gordon had died, the screen faded to black and In Memory of Kathleen Freeman was shown. Weakened by illness, Freeman was forced to leave the Full Monty cast, five days later, she died of lung cancer at age 82 at Lenox Hill Hospital
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Kathleen Freeman in the late 1960s
52.
Alan Hale Jr.
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Alan Hale Jr. was an American film, stage, character and television actor and restaurateur. Hale Jr. was the son of character actor Alan Hale Sr. Hale Jr. s television career and he also appeared on several talk and variety shows. He also appeared in comedies, playing opposite Don DeFore in It Happened on Fifth Avenue, James Cagney in The West Point Story. He achieved continuing success in the CBS television sitcom Gilligans Island, after its cancellation, the series would remain a popular staple in syndication. Hale reprised the role of The Skipper in three Gilligans Island television films and two spin-off cartoon series, Alan Hale MacKahan was born in Los Angeles, California on March 8,1921. His father was character actor Rufus Edward McKahan, who used the name of Alan Hale. Appearing in over 235 films, his father had a screen career both as a leading man in silent films and as a supporting actor in sound movies. During World War II, Hale Jr. enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, after the death of his father in 1950, Hale dropped the Junior from his name. In 1931, Hale made his Broadway stage debut in Caught Wet, the play opened on November 4 and closed later that month. He made his debut two years later in Wild Boys of the Road. However, his part was deleted out of the final release. He later appeared in roles in To the Shores of Tripoli, Yanks Ahoy, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, during the late 1940s and early 1950s, he frequently appeared in Gene Autry films and also had a recurring role from 1950 to 1952 on The Gene Autry Show. In 1952, Hale landed the role in CBSs Biff Baker, U. S. A. Hale continued his career with guest spots on The Range Rider, Annie Oakley, Fireside Theater, Frontier, Matinee Theater, Fury, Northwest Passage, and The Man from Blackhawk. He also had roles in The Gunfighter, Silver Lode, The Sea Chase, The Three Outlaws, The True Story of Jesse James, and Up Periscope. In 1957, Hale landed another starring role in the television series Casey Jones. In 1957, he played folksy rancher Les Bridgeman in the episode Hired Gun of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne, whitney Blake plays Bridgemans wife Lilli, who hires a professional assassin to kill her husband so that she can marry a rival rancher, Kiley Rand. Cheyenne Bodie goes undercover to unravel the mystery, in 1960, he played Tuk in the episode Road to Three Graves of the western series Cheyenne, in which Cheyenne helps his friend Tuk deliver equipment to his mine
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Alan Hale, Jr., as Skipper in
Gilligan's Island
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Hale and
Celeste Holm in
Follow the Sun (1961)
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Barbara Hale
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She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason movies for television. Her many films roles included The Window, in which she starred as the mother of a boy who witnesses a murder, barbara Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, a daughter of Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and Wilma Colvin. She had one sister, Juanita, for whom Hales younger daughter was named, the family was of Scots-Irish ancestry. In 1940, Hale graduated from Rockford High School in Rockford, Illinois, then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and her performing career began in Chicago, when she started modeling to pay for her education. Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943, and made her first screen appearances playing small parts and her first role was in Gildersleeves Bad Day. She was under contract to RKO Radio Pictures through the late 1940s and she played the top-billed title role in Lorna Doone, co-starred with James Stewart in The Jackpot, with James Cagney in A Lion Is in the Streets and opposite Rock Hudson in Seminole. She appeared in 1955s The Far Horizons with Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston, Hales last leading role in motion pictures was with Joel McCrea as co-star in the 1957 western The Oklahoman. However, she did have a role in the 1970 ensemble film Airport. Her final film appearances were in The Giant Spider Invasion and Big Wednesday, Hale was considering retirement from acting when she accepted her best known role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr as the titular character. The show ran from 1957 to 1966, and she reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason television films and her last onscreen appearance was a TV biographical documentary about Burr that aired in 2000. Hales activity in radio was more limited and she appeared in five episodes of Family Theater and in one episode each of Lux Radio Theatre, Voice of the Army, and Proudly We Hail. Hale also is remembered as a spokesperson for Amana, makers of Radarange microwave ovens, memorably intoning, If it doesnt say Amana, in 1945 during the filming of West of the Pecos, Hale met actor Bill Williams. They married June 22,1946, and were the parents of two daughters, Jodi and Juanita, and a son, actor William Katt, Katt played detective Paul Drake, Jr. with her in several made-for-television Perry Mason movies. She also guest-starred as the mother of Ralph Hinkley in a 1982 episode of The Greatest American Hero, Bill Williams died of cancer in 1992, after 46 years of marriage. Hale, a cancer survivor, became a follower of the Baháí Faith. Barbara Hale died at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, on January 26,2017 and she is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park next to her late husband. Hale was recognized as a Star of Television on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8,1960 and she was presented one of the Golden Boot Awards in 2001 for her contributions to western cinema
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Barbara Hale in Jolson Sings Again, 1949.
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Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale in the CBS-TV series,
Perry Mason (1958)
Barbara Hale
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William Hopper, Barbara Hale and
Frank Sully in Perry Mason (1958)
54.
Darryl Hickman
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Darryl Gerard Hickman is an American film and television actor, television executive, and acting coach. Hickman was born in Hollywood, California to Milton and Katherine Hickman and his father sold insurance and his mother was a housewife. In the mid-1930s, Darryl was discovered by a school director. The following year, the famed Hollywood studio Paramount signed a contract with the child actor and his first film role was as Ronald Colmans son in The Prisoner of Zenda in 1937. He attended Paramounts school in California and had classmates like Gene Nelson, in preparation for the 1939 Bing Crosby movie The Star Maker, Paramount casting agents, led by Leroy Prinz, interviewed over 1000 children. Hickman won one of the parts in the film, pleased with Hickmans performance, Crosby notified his older brother and talent agent Everett Crosby of the young actor. After this, he went on to appear in motion pictures throughout the 1930s and 1940s in a wide array of genres. A busy performer, he would work at different films simultaneously. In 1940, he was cast in 20th Century Foxs film adaption of John Steinbecks best-selling novel from 1939 The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. He portrayed the role of Winfield Joad, the youngest member of a family trying to cope with the hardships of The Great Depression. The film was a critical and commercial success, with Ford winning an Academy Award for best director, another notable role during this time included the war-time melodrama The Human Comedy, where he played a mentally slow child. He made a appearance in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Going to Press. In 1946, he played the version of Van Heflins character Sam Masterson in the film noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. In order to make it seem credible that Hickman looked like a young Van Heflin and he acted alongside Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in the 1946 film Leave Her to Heaven. Being the sole survivor among the cast, he provided commentary in the DVD release of the movie. His experience of working with Tierney was mixed, considering her to have been aloof and it won Tierney an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1947, Hickman was lauded by a newspaper as one of Hollywoods top juveniles, looking back, Hickman became critical of child acting, lamenting the deprivation of a real childhood. He opted to get assistance for several years in order to come to terms with his past
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Darryl Hickman in
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
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Dwayne Hickman
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Dwayne Bernard Hickman is an American former actor and television executive at CBS. Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised Catholic, Hickman is the brother of child actor Darryl Hickman. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1952 and intended to become a Passionist priest, an early screen appearance was in the 1942 Our Gang comedy Melodies Old and New. Dwayne and Darryl co-starred in an episode of the syndicated military drama Men of Annapolis, filmed at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. As a teen, he and Darryl guest-starred in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger titled Two Gold Lockets and he gained wide notice as Chuck on The Bob Cummings Show from 1955-59. At the time, he was studying at Loyola, Hickman was one of the first stars to have a breakout character in the series. Hickman considered Cummings a childhood hero and has said that Cummings taught him everything he knows about acting. He worked with and was friends with Cummings throughout five seasons, while still on the Bob Cummings Show in 1958, Hickman was cast as the lead of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which aired on CBS from 1959–63. Although at the debut the Dobie character was a teenager in high school. After playing Dobie for four years, Hickman found himself stereotyped as a youngster when he was too old for such roles and he appeared in minor beach films and made an unsuccessful television pilot portraying a schoolteacher. James Franciscus was thereafter cast as Mr. Novak, a high school English teacher on another NBC series, on June 23,1960, Hickman appeared on NBCs The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Annette Funicello appeared together in an episode of ABCs circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth, in 1965, Hickman appeared in the comedy film Cat Ballou with Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin. Hickman found his future in entertainment behind the scenes, being involved in production roles, from 1977–88, Hickman served as a programming executive at CBS. He worked as a director on television series, including Designing Women. He reprised his role of Dobie in two television reunion broadcasts, the one-shot pilot Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis and the TV movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis and his autobiography is titled Forever Dobie. Official website Interview with Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Hickman at the Internet Movie Database
Dwayne Hickman
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Hickman (left) with
Danielle De Metz and
Bob Denver in a 1960 "Dobie Gillis" publicity shot
56.
Dennis Hopper
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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, in the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s, Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider, which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best First Work, Film critic Matthew Hays notes that, no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years, in 1970 he filmed The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by Laszlo Kovacs in Peru, and completed production in 1971. On viewing the first release print, fresh from the lab, in his room at Universal, MCA founder Jules Stein rose from his chair and said. He worked on small projects until he found new fame for his role as the American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now. He went on to helm his second directorial work Out of the Blue, for which he was honored at Cannes. His third directorial outing came about through Colors, followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in Paris Trout, Hopper found even greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. Hoppers later work included a role in the short-lived television series Crash. Hopper has an additional credit in the completed, but unreleased Orson Welles drama The Other Side of the Wind. Hopper was born Dennis Lee Hopper on May 17,1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David. After World War II, the moved to Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of 13, Hopper and his moved to San Diego. Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School and it was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Actors Studio in New York City. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hoppers interest in art and he was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. Hopper was reported to have a role in Johnny Guitar in 1954. Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant
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Hopper at the
2008 Cannes Film Festival
Dennis Hopper
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Hopper in
Easy Rider
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Hopper in June 2008
Dennis Hopper
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Hopper with
Jack Nicholson at the
62nd Academy Awards in 1990
57.
Dean Jagger
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Dean Jeffries Jagger was an American film, stage and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry Kings Twelve OClock High. Born Dean Jeffries, or Dean Jeffries Jagger, in Columbus Grove or Lima, Ohio, while at Wabash, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and played football. He dropped out in his year, realizing he was not suited to an academic life. For a few semesters, he taught all eight grades in an elementary school, Jagger studied acting at Chicagos Lyceum Arts Conservatory. He joined a company as Spencer Tracys replacement. He performed in vaudeville, on the radio and on stage, through the 1930s and 1940s, he performed in a number of Broadway plays, including the original production of Tobacco Road. Jagger made his debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor. He became a character actor and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. Jagger made his breakthrough with his portrayal of Brigham Young in Brigham Young, according to George D. Pyper, a technical consultant on the film who had personally known Brigham Young, Jagger not only resembled Young, he also spoke like him and had many of his mannerisms. Thirty-two years later, in 1972 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve OClock High. In the film, he played the retread World War I veteran, col. Harvey Stovall, who acts as an advisor to the commander, General Savage. He appeared in the biblical epic The Robe as the weaver Justus of Cana, Jagger also portrayed the father of Elvis Presleys character in 1958s King Creole. He was the manager for an evangelist played by Jean Simmons in the acclaimed 1960 drama Elmer Gantry. For the 1956 British science-fiction film X the Unknown, Jagger refused to work with director Joseph Losey because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist, Losey was removed from the project after a few days of shooting and replaced with Leslie Norman. In 1971, Jagger appeared on The Partridge Family and he played a prospector named Charlie in the Christmas episode Dont Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa. He won a Daytime Emmy award for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life and he played dozens of TV dramatic roles, including an episode of The Twilight Zone called Static. In an early episode of the television series Kung Fu, Jagger appeared as Caines grandfather, who wants little to do with him, Dean Jagger has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1523 Vine Street for his contribution to motion pictures. In later life, Dean Jagger suffered from disease and died in his sleep in Santa Monica
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in Dangerous Number (1937)
58.
Van Johnson
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Charles Van Dell Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II. Johnson made occasional World War II movies through the end of the 1960s, at the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywoods golden age. Charles Van Dell Johnson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the child of Loretta, a housewife, and Charles E. Johnson. His father was born in Sweden and came to the United States as a young child and his mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a child, Johnsons relationship with his father was chilly. Johnson performed at clubs in Newport while in high school. He moved to New York City after graduating high school in 1935 and joined an off-Broadway revue. After touring New England in a troupe as a substitute dancer. Johnson returned to the chorus after that, and worked in summer resorts near New York City, in 1939, director and playwright George Abbott cast him in Rodgers and Harts Too Many Girls in the role of a college boy and as understudy for all three male leads. After an uncredited role in the adaptation of Too Many Girls, Abbott hired him as a chorus boy. Johnson was about to back to New York when Lucille Ball took him to Chasens Restaurant, where she introduced him to MGM casting director Billy Grady. This led to tests by Hollywood studios. His test at Columbia Pictures was unsuccessful, but Warner Brothers put him on contract at $300 a week and his all-American good looks and easy demeanor were ill-suited to the gritty movies Warner made at the time, and the studio dropped him at the expiration of his six-month contract. Shortly before leaving Warner, he was cast as a cub reporter opposite Faye Emerson in the 1942 film Murder in the Big House and his eyebrows and hair were dyed black for the role. As with other players at MGM, Johnson was provided with classes in acting, speech. Johnson subsequently appeared in Pilot No.5 and in William Saroyans The Human Comedy, which was produced in 1943, and in the role in Two Girls. Johnsons big break was in A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, when the crash happened, Johnsons scalp was nearly sheared off. The closest rescue units responded, but because the accident happened just over the county line. Johnson had to slap his scalp into place and literally crawl nearly 50 yards to get to the workers for aid
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Johnson in a publicity photo, 1972
Van Johnson
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The handprints of Van Johnson in front of
The Great Movie Ride at
Walt Disney World 's
Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park
Van Johnson
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Johnson, in
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Van Johnson
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Johnson continued to star in war dramas after the war ended, including
Battleground (1949).
