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Owensboro, Kentucky
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Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population and it is located on U. S. Route 60 about 107 miles southwest of Louisville, and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area. The metropolitan population was estimated at 116,506, evidence of American Indian settlement in the area dates back 12,000 years. Following a series of failed uprisings with British support, however, the first European descendant to settle in Owensboro was frontiersman William Smeathers or Smothers in 1797, for whom the riverfront park is named. The settlement was known as Yellow Banks from the color of the land beside the Ohio River. The Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered at what is todays Owensboro prior to departing on their famous travels, in 1817, Yellow Banks was formally established under the name Owensborough, named after Col. Abraham Owen. In 1893, the spelling of the name was shortened to its current Owensboro, in August 1864, Owensboro was subject to a raid by a band of Confederate guerrillas from Tennessee led by Captain Jack Bennett, an officer in Stovepipe Johnsons Partisan Rangers. Another major battle occurred 8 miles south of Owensboro and is signified by a monument marking the battle located beside US Highway 431. Several distillers, mainly of bourbon whiskey, have been in, the major distillery still in operation is the Glenmore Distillery Company, now owned by the Sazerac Company. On August 14,1936, downtown Owensboro was the site of the last public hanging in the United States, rainey Bethea was executed for the rape and murder of 70-year-old Lischa Edwards. The execution was presided over by a sheriff, Florence Shoemaker Thompson. The end of the Second World War brought civil engineering projects which helped turn Owensboro from an industrial town into a modern. The Owensboro Wagon Company, established in 1884, was one of the largest and most influential companies in the nation. With eight styles or sizes of wagons, the set the standard of quality at the turn of the 20th century. Frederick A. Ames came to Owensboro from Washington, Pennsylvania and he started the Carriage Woodstock Company to repair horse-drawn carriages. In 1910, he began to manufacture a line of automobiles under the Ames brand name, Ames hired industrialist Vincent Bendix in 1912, and the company became the Ames Motor Car Company. Despite its product being called the best $1500 car by a Texas car dealer, the company then began manufacturing replacement bodies for the more widely sold Ford Model T. In 1922, the company itself and started to manufacture furniture under the name Ames Corporation
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Historic District in downtown Owensboro
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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
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Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Woodland Hills is an affluent neighborhood in the region of the San Fernando Valley which is located east of Calabasas. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U. S. Route 101 and Ventura Boulevard, the first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish missions and settlements locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España was established in 1797 and controlled the Valleys land, including future Woodland Hills. Ownership of the half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills. Moses Sherman and others in 1910, victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres in the area from Chandlers group and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers and his 300 pepper trees formed a canopy over Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, Woodland Hills has a firmly subtropical mediterranean climate. Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills generally experiences some of the extreme temperature changes season to season than other regions. During the summer, temperatures are very hot, while during the winter. On July 22,2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, the climate is classified as a Csa in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. This climate is referred to as mediterranean. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, in 2008 the population of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40, considered old when compared to city and county jurisdictions. As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79. 90% White,6. 97% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,3. 34% African American,0. 33% Native American,4. 80% from other races, and 4. 52% from two or more races. 11. 94% of the population were Hispanic of any race, in population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is high for the county
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Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including
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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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The Seven Year Itch
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The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell and it contains one of the most iconic images of the 20th century – Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress is blown upwards by a passing train. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists. Richard Sherman is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife, Helen. That evening, he works on reading the manuscript of a book in which psychiatrist Dr. Brubaker claims that almost all men are driven to have affairs in the seventh year of marriage. A tomato plant then crashes into his chair, the woman upstairs apologizes for accidentally knocking it off the balcony. He waits for her to get dressed, including in underwear she says she keeps cool in her icebox, when she arrives, a vision in pink, they have a drink and he lies about being married. When she sees his wedding ring, he backtracks but she is unconcerned, having no designs on him and he has a fantasy that she is a femme fatale overcome by his playing of Rachmaninoffs Second Piano Concerto. In reality, she prefers Chopsticks, which play together. Richard, overcome by his fantasies, awkwardly grabs at her and he apologizes for his indiscretion but she says it happens to her all the time. Guilt-ridden, however, he asks her to leave, over the next few days, they spend more time together and Richard imagines that they are growing closer, although she is immune to his imagined charms. Helen continually calls her husband, asking him to send the paddle so Ricky can use the kayak and his waning resolve to resist temptation fuels his fear that he is succumbing to the Seven Year Itch. He seeks help from Dr. Brubaker, but to no avail, Richard imagines his wife with McKenzie on a hayride which actually takes place but into which he injects his paranoia, guilt and jealousy. The characters of Elaine, Marie, and the voices of Sherman and The Girl were dropped from the play, the characters of the Plumber, Miss Finch, the Waitress. Many lines and scenes from the play were cut or re-written because they were deemed indecent by the Hays office, Axelrod and Wilder complained that the film was being made under straitjacketed conditions. This led to a plot change, in the play, Sherman and The Girl had sex, in the movie. Footage of Walter Matthau and Ewells screen tests for Sherman is featured in the DVD of the film, nicolas Roegs film Insignificance features a character based on Monroe and a re-enactment of the subway/dress scene. The exterior shooting location of Richards apartment was 164 East 61st Street in Manhattan, saul Bass created the opening animated title sequence for the film, his only title sequence for a Wilder movie
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Don Ameche
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Don Ameche was an American actor and voice artist. After touring in vaudeville, he featured in many biographical films and he continued to appear on Broadway, as well as on radio and TV, where he was host and commentator for International Showtime, covering circus and ice-shows all over Europe. Ameche was married to his wife Honore for 54 years, Ameche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon. Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 31,1908 and his father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Italy from Montemonaco, Ascoli Piceno, Marche. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of Scottish, Irish and he had three brothers, Umberto, James, and Louis, and four sisters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Anna. Ameche attended Marquette University, Loras College, and the University of Wisconsin, Ameche had intended to study law, but he found theatricals more interesting and decided on a stage career. He was instrumental in forming and leading the group the year before play began. Ameche was married to Honore Prendergast from 1932 until her death in 1986, one, Ron Ameche, owned a restaurant, Ameches Pumpernickel in Coralville, Iowa. He had two daughters, Connie and Bonnie, Ameches younger brother, Jim Ameche, was also a well-known actor. His brother Bert was an architect who worked for the U. S. Navy in Port Hueneme, California, and then the U. S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, California. He enjoyed the experience and got a lead in Jerry For Short in New York, followed by a tour in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until she dropped him from the act. He made his debut in 1935, and by the late 1930s, had established himself as a major actor in Hollywood. He appeared in films as Alexanders Ragtime Band, and as the title character in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. In the 1940 film Go West, Groucho Marx proclaims, Telephone and this is 1870, Don Ameche hasnt invented the telephone yet. While in the 1941 film Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwycks character discusses the ameche slang usage, Do you know what this means, another highlight was co-starring with Gene Tierney in Ernst Lubitschs Heaven Can Wait in 1943, a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1940, he was voted the 21st-most-popular star in Hollywood, in 1944 he reportedly earned $247,677 for 1943, making him the second highest earner at 20th Century Fox after Spyros Skouras. Ameche played so many roles based on people that on one of his radio broadcasts, Fred Allen joked. Soon afterwards, in Its in the Bag. which starred Allen, Ameche and fellow veteran actor Ralph Bellamy were eventually cast in John Landis Trading Places in 1983, playing rich brothers intent on ruining an innocent man for the sake of a one-dollar bet
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Ameche in the 1938 film
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Actors Studio
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5,1947, by Elia Kazan, [[Cheryl Crawford, lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17,1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, the Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles. After an initial meeting held on October 5,1947, at the Labor Stage, before settling in its current location in 1955, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period, In January 1948, it was a dance studio on East 59th Street. In April of that year, a move to the CBS Building at 1697 Broadway, near 53rd Street, established some semblance of stability and this it did at the Malin Studios at 1545 Broadway, room 610. This arrangement would persist throughout the 1954-1955 theatrical season, even as the Studio was acquiring and renovating its current venue, in 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859. From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School, after ending its contact with the New School, the Actors Studio established The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2006. ISBN 0-02-542650-8 Foster Hirsch, A Method to their Madness, The History of the Actors Studio, New York, WW Norton & Co Inc,1984. ISBN 0-393-01783-4 Shelly Frome, The Actors Studio, a History, david Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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The Actors Studio building on West 44th Street in Manhattan, a converted church
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United States Navy
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The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U. S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, the U. S. Navy has the worlds largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of October 2016, the U. S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy. It played the role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U. S. Navy maintains a global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations is an admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy. The CNO may not be the highest ranking officer in the armed forces if the Chairman or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, the United States Navy is a seaborne branch of the military of the United States. The Navys three primary areas of responsibility, The preparation of naval forces necessary for the prosecution of war. The development of aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization, U. S. Navy training manuals state that the mission of the U. S. Armed Forces is to prepare and conduct prompt and sustained combat operations in support of the national interest, as part of that establishment, the U. S. Navys functions comprise sea control, power projection and nuclear deterrence, in addition to sealift duties. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, the Navy was rooted in the colonial seafaring tradition, which produced a large community of sailors, captains, and shipbuilders. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had its own Massachusetts Naval Militia, the establishment of a national navy was an issue of debate among the members of the Second Continental Congress. Supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, detractors countered that challenging the British Royal Navy, then the worlds preeminent naval power, was a foolish undertaking. Commander in Chief George Washington resolved the debate when he commissioned the ocean-going schooner USS Hannah to interdict British merchant ships, and reported the captures to the Congress
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USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente during the
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June Lockhart
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June Lockhart is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, also with performances on stage and in film. She played the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space and she also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction. She is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner and her grandfather was John Coates Lockhart, a concert-singer. She attended the Westlake School for Girls in Beverly Hills, California, Lockhart made her film debut opposite her parents in a film version of A Christmas Carol, in 1938. She also played supporting parts in films including Meet Me in St. Louis, Sergeant York, All This, Lockhart played the title role in She-Wolf of London. Lockhart debuted on stage at the age of eight, playing Mimsey in Peter Ibbetson, in 1947, her acting in For Love or Money brought her out of her parents shadow and gained her notice as a promising movie actress in her own right. One newspaper article began, June Lockhart has burst on Broadway with the suddenness of an unpredicted comet, in 1951, Lockhart starred in Lawrence Rileys biographical play Kin Hubbard opposite Tom Ewell. In 1955, Lockhart appeared in an episode of CBSs Appointment with Adventure, about this time, she also made several appearances on NBCs legal drama Justice, based on case files of the Legal Aid Society of New York. In the late 1950s, Lockhart guest-starred in several popular television Westerns including, Wagon Train and Cimarron City on NBC and Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, and Rawhide on CBS. Lockhart is best known for her roles as TV mothers, first as Ruth Martin, the wife of Paul Martin, and she replaced actress Cloris Leachman, who, in turn, had replaced Jan Clayton - who had played a similar character earlier in the series. Following her five-year run on Lassie Lockhart made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as defendant Mona Stanton Harvey in The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor. Lockhart then starred as Dr. Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, in 1965, Lockhart played librarian Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, in the episode Magic Locket of the syndicated western series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Ronald W. Reagan. In the storyline, Coolbrith develops a friendship with the teenaged Dorita Duncan. The two have identical portions of a broken locket, sean McClory played the poet Joaquin Miller, author of Songs of the Sierras. Lockhart would then appear as Dr, in 1986, she appeared in the fantasy film, Troll. The younger version of her character in film was played by her daughter. They had previously played the woman at two different ages in the Lest We Forget episode of the television series Magnum, P. I. In 1991, Lockhart appeared as Miss Wiltrout, Michelle Tanners kindergarten teacher on the TV sitcom Full House and she also had a cameo in the 1998 film Lost in Space, based on the television series she had starred in thirty years earlier
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Vanessa Brown
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Vanessa Brown was an Austrian-born American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television. Born Smylla Brind in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents, Brown and her family fled to Paris, within a few years the family had settled in America and Brown auditioned for Lillian Hellman for a role in Watch on the Rhine. In high school she wrote and directed school plays and she graduated from UCLA in 1949, having majored in English. While there, she was movie critic and feature writer for the Daily Bruin, browns IQ of 165 led to two years of work as one of the young panelists on the radio series Quiz Kids. She specialized in literature and language, in her adult years, she had an interview program on the Voice of America. She was also heard on Lux Radio Theatre, Skippy Hollywood Theatre, NBC University Theatre, Brown was a junior member of the National Board of Review, the critical panel serving the motion picture industry. RKO Radio Pictures brought her family to Los Angeles, and Brown made her debut in Youth Runs Wild. RKO changed her name to Vanessa Brown and assigned her to a series of ingenue roles over the next few years. She was the actress to play the role of Jane, appearing in Tarzan and the Slave Girl opposite Lex Barker, followed by a role in Vincente Minnellis acclaimed The Bad. Her last film appearance was playing Millie Perkinss sister in the horror film The Witch Who Came from the Sea. In the 1950s, Brown was a regular panelist on Ill Buy That on CBS and she also acted in live television dramas of the early 1950s, including Robert Montgomery Presents and The Philco Television Playhouse, and appeared on Pantomime Quiz and Leave It to the Girls. She later appeared on television series as The Wonder Years and Murder. She also had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Donna Kress in the 1959 episode, back on Broadway, she originated the role of The Girl in The Seven Year Itch, the character portrayed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film version. She continued to do much television through the 1950s, and was one of the narrators of the United World Federalists documentary Eight Steps to Peace, along with Vincent Price, Brown also ventured into writing for the stage. She was the author of Europa and the Bull, based on the legend of Europa, Brown was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to the partys national convention in 1956. In 1962, she was a member of a committee that promoted a campaign for Adlai Stevenson as governor of California. In 1959, Brown was described in an article as a promising artist whose oil paintings hang in the homes of top film colony personalities. She signed her paintings with her name, Symila
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts is a 1956 film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North, and Rita Moreno. It is a comedy about a man whose marriage begins to fail when his wife gets drafted, TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to duty from the Air Force reserve. A captain attending the party, Barney Sloan, casually calls Greg an old-timer, Greg gets drunk and passes out. His pride stung, Greg is willing to return to duty once he learns of the letter, so Katy, trouble is, Greg flunks his physical exam due to a bad knee. Katy is shipped to a base in Hawaii without him, female neighbors keep suggesting Katy will be lonely and surrounded by handsome servicemen, so Greg flies to Honolulu to join her. He ends up spending hours with the wives, a situation their husbands dont appreciate, Greg decides to sabotage Katys career so she can get a discharge. His stunt backfires, but because Gregs knee has healed, he is now recalled up to duty, which would be fine, except Katy now needs to be honorably discharged and sent home because she is pregnant. Tom Ewell as Gregory Whitcomb Sheree North as Lt. Katy Whitcomb Rita Moreno as Sandra Roberts Rick Jason as Capt. The project originated in the fall of 1955, soon after Norths breakthrough in How to Be Very, Very Popular, a role intended for Monroe, but one she turned down. The studio attached popular director Frank Tashlin and comedian Tom Ewell to work alongside North, Tashlin had the films script tailored to fit Norths talents, and molded his story along the lines of the popular romantic comedies of the era. The film was Buddy Adlers first film under his Fox contract, during production, the role of Sandra, the sultry upstairs neighbor, was intended for African-American actress Dorothy Dandridge. Two years earlier, Dandridge had achieved fame for her performance in Carmen Jones, Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck was, at the time, in the process of gradually promoting Dandridge into being accepted by contemporary white audiences. As a result, Dandridge was replaced by Rita Moreno as Sandra and Tuptim, and her career started its slow, but steady decline. List of American films of 1956 The Lieutenant Wore Skirts at the Internet Movie Database The Lieutenant Wore Skirts at the TCM Movie Database The Lieutenant Wore Skirts at AllMovie
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Sheree North
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Sheree North was an American film and television actress, dancer, and singer, known for being one of 20th Century-Foxs intended successors to Marilyn Monroe. North was born as Dawn Shirley Crang in Los Angeles, California, on January 17,1932, following her mothers remarriage to Edward Bethel, she was known as Dawn Shirley Bethel. She began dancing in USO shows during World War II at age ten, in 1948, she married Fred Bessire. She bore her first child at age 17 in 1949, North made her film début as an uncredited extra in Excuse My Dust. She was then spotted by a performing at the Macayo Club in Santa Monica. Around that time, she adopted the stage name Sheree North and she made her Broadway début in the musical Hazel Flagg, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She reprised her role in the version, Living It Up, starring Dean Martin. In early 1954, aged 22, she appeared in a live TV version of Cole Porters Anything Goes on The Colgate Comedy Hour, with Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, in 1954, North signed a four-year contract with 20th Century-Fox. The studio had big plans for her, hoping to groom her as a replacement for the studios leading, after her screen tests, however, North was not cast in either film. In March 1954, North had a brush with scandal when it was revealed that she had danced in a bikini in an 8 mm erotic film. Fox capitalized on the publicity as the studio previously had with Monroes nude calendar posing in 1952, in 1955, she was assigned the lead role opposite Betty Grable in How to Be Very, Very Popular, a role that Marilyn Monroe had refused to accept. Media attention surrounding Monroes suspension and Norths hiring resulted in North appearing on the cover of Life magazine with the cover line Sheree North Takes Over From Marilyn Monroe, the movie received mixed reviews from critics and was a moderate box office success. Despite this, film historians, then and now, cite Norths electrically-charged dancing to Shake, Rattle and Roll, in an attempt to promote North, Fox studio executives lobbied to cast her in films surrounded with popular stars. The studio had campaigned to cast her in a film with comedian Tom Ewell, to promote the film, North posed for several publicity shots showing her legs. When the majority of the shots were released, only her legs appeared with the tagline, Believe it or not, the film premiered with much fanfare in January 1956, and became a box office success, grossing over $4 million in the United States. Norths follow-up was The Best Things in Life Are Free, a musical in which her singing voice was dubbed by Eileen Wilson. She received fourth billing under Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, and it was an attempt by the studio to broaden Norths audience appeal, and while it earned favorable reviews from critics, it did not become the success Fox had hoped for. In 1956, Fox signed another blonde bombshell, Broadway actress Jayne Mansfield to a contract, although Fox slowly lost interest in North, the studio continued to offer her a string of films
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North in 1975
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Sheree North on the cover of
Life magazine (March 21, 1955)
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Ed Asner as Lou Grant and Sheree North as Charlene Maguire, his new girlfriend, in a
fifth season episode of the
Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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Jayne Mansfield
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Jayne Mansfield was an American actress in film, theatre, and television. She was also an entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s and 20th Century Foxs main sex symbol actress and she was also known for her well publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as wardrobe malfunctions. While Mansfields film career was short-lived, she had several successes and won a Theatre World Award. She enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe and her other major movie performances were for The Girl Cant Help It, The Wayward Bus, and Too Hot to Handle. She became the first major American actress to have a starring role in a Hollywood motion picture. Mansfields professional name came from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield, in 1967, Mansfield was killed in a car crash at the age of 34, along with two others. Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19,1933, in Bryn Mawr and she was the only child of Herbert William Palmer, who was of German and English ancestry, and Vera Palmer, of English origin. She inherited more than $90,000 from her maternal grandfather Thomas and more than $36,000 from her grandmother, Beatrice Mary Palmer. She spent her childhood in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where her father was an attorney practising with future New Jersey governor Robert B. In 1936, her father Herbert William Palmer died of an attack while driving a car with his wife. In 1939 Vera married sales engineer Harry Lawrence Peers, and the moved to Dallas, Texas. As a child she wanted to be a Hollywood star like Shirley Temple and she graduated from Highland Park High School in 1950. At the age of 12, she took lessons in ballroom dance, while in high school, Palmer took lessons in violin, piano and viola. She also studied Spanish and German and she consistently received high Bs in school, including mathematics. She married Paul James Mansfield on May 10,1950 and their daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, was born on November 8,1950. After marriage, Mansfield and her husband enrolled in Southern Methodist University to study acting, in 1951, she moved to Austin, Texas, with her husband, and studied dramatics at the University of Texas at Austin, until her junior year. There she worked as a model for art classes, sold books door to door
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Mansfield in
Kiss Them for Me (1957)
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Mansfield in
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1959)
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Mansfield in
Too Hot to Handle (1960)
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Nude in
Promises! Promises! (1963)
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Julie London
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Julie London was an American singer, and film and television actress, whose career spanned five decades of television. She was noted for her smoky, sensual husky voice and languid demeanor and she released 32 albums of pop and jazz standards during the 1950s and 1960s, with her signature song being the classic Cry Me a River, which she introduced in 1955. She had also appeared as a guest on talk shows. Londons 35-year acting career began in films in 1944, and included playing opposite Rock Hudson in The Fat Man, Gary Cooper in Man of the West and she achieved continuing success in the 1970s medical drama Emergency. Co-starring her real-life husband, Bobby Troup, and produced by her ex-husband, Jack Webb, in which London played the lead role of Nurse Dixie McCall. An only child, London was born on September 26,1926, in Santa Rosa, California, the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. In 1929, when she was 3 years old, her moved to San Bernardino, California. In 1941, when she was 14, the moved to Hollywood. Shortly after that, she began appearing in films and she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School in 1945. London began singing in public in her teens before appearing in film and she was discovered by talent agent Sue Carol, while working as an elevator operator. Her early film career did not include any singing roles, London recorded 32 albums in a career that began in 1955 with a live performance at the 881 Club in Los Angeles. Billboard named her the most popular female vocalist for 1955,1956 and she was the subject of a 1957 Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying, Its only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate, londons début recordings were for the Bethlehem Records label. While shopping for a deal, she recorded four tracks that would later be included on the compilation album Bethlehems Girlfriends in 1955. Bobby Troup backed London on the album, London recorded the standards Dont Worry About Me, Motherless Child, A Foggy Day, and Youre Blasé. Londons most famous single, Cry Me a River, was written by her high-school classmate Arthur Hamilton, the recording became a million-seller after its release in December 1955, and also sold on reissue in April 1983 from the attention brought by a Mari Wilson cover. London performed the song in the film The Girl Cant Help It, the song Yummy Yummy Yummy was featured on the HBO television series Six Feet Under and appears on its soundtrack album. Londons Must Be Catchin was featured in the 2011 premiere episode of the ABC series Pan Am and her last recording was My Funny Valentine for the soundtrack of the Burt Reynolds film Sharkys Machine
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London in 1958
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London with
Richard Long in 1968
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London and Troup in 1971, in
Emergency!
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State Fair (1962 film)
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State Fair is a 1962 American musical film directed by José Ferrer. The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name and it was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. It starred Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin, richard Rodgers wrote additional songs, both music and lyrics, for this version. His partner Oscar Hammerstein had died in 1960, while the stage musical,1933 and 1945 film were set at the Iowa State Fair, this 1962 version was set in Texas. It was filmed in Visalia, California at Mooneys Grove park, the Tilt-A-Whirl that was used in the film is currently at a small theme park in Golden, Colorado. Adler died later that year as did Hammerstein, Rodgers decided to write the lyrics himself. José Ferrer had just made Return to Peyton Place for Fox and was signed to direct, State Fair at the Internet Movie Database State Fair at the TCM Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
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Coconut Grove Playhouse
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The Coconut Grove Playhouse was a theatre in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. The building was constructed as a movie theater called the Players State Theater. It opened on January 3,1927, as a part of the Paramount chain, the movie house was designed by the architect Richard Kiehnel of Kiehnel and Elliott. It was built by local realtors Irving J. Thomas and Fin L. Pierce, the theater was renowned as the second movie theatre on the east coast of Florida to be air conditioned and having the largest Wurlitzer organ in the United States. It was used for a variety of shows until closing in 2006 and it has not been used since. In the 1950s George Engle, an oilman, bought it and it reopened on January 3,1956 with the US premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, starring Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, and Ethel Merman, between 1964 and 1965, The Coconut Grove Playhouse was used by The Miami Actors Company, which was meant to be an extension of the National Theatre and Academy. The brainchild of Ilse Earl, who taught classes at Miami Dade College. Only 20 actors from Miami and surrounding areas were chosen to become part of this historic event, the company was reviewed by The Miami Herald theatre critic at that time. Shows involved, among others, were J. B. by Archibald MacLeish, All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, Slow Dance was a hurried replacement which had to be put in place within ten days of rehearsal, replacing Hogans Goat. In 1982, actor-director José Ferrer was named Artistic Director, in 1985, Arnold Mittelman was selected after a national search to succeed Mr. Ferrer. Among the productions that premiered prior to a Broadway opening are Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. Sherry Glaser’s Family Secrets moved to off-Broadway and became its longest running one-woman show, the theatre now has two stages, the 1700-seat proscenium Mainstage Theater and the intimate 100-seat Encore Room Theater. On November 22,1996, Late Show with David Letterman originated from the theater and it remains the last episode of the show not to originate from New York to date. The Coconut Grove Playhouse closed in 2006 due to an accumulated debt, the theatre remains closed to this date. In January 2014, however, Miami-Dade County received permission from the State of Florida to take over the building, at the time of the Miami-Dade County takeover, there were several ideas for the use of the space. GableStage would work in association with Florida International University and their theatre department, at the time of the approval, the City of Miami government waived 1.5 million dollars worth of previously accumulated building violation fees. This plan was rivaled by a proposal for creating a 700 seat theatre at the space, the group presenting this proposal was led by Mike Eidson, trust chairman at the Adrienne Arsht Center, a large performance complex in downtown Miami
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Coconut Grove Playhouse
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Bert Lahr
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Bert Lahr was an American actor, particularly of stage and film, and comedian. Lahr is known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker Zeke and he was well known for his explosive humor, but also adapted well to dramatic roles and his work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway. Lahr was born in New York City, the son of Augusta and his parents were German Jewish immigrants. Lahr grew up in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, dropping out of school at 15 to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he debuted on Broadway in Delmars Revels and he played to packed houses, performing classic routines such as The Song of the Woodman. Lahr had his first major success in a stage playing the prize fighter hero of Hold Everything. Other musicals followed, notably Flying High, Florenz Ziegfelds Hot-Cha. in 1939, he co-starred as Louis Blore alongside Ethel Merman in the Broadway production of DuBarry Was a Lady. Lahr made his film debut in 1931s Flying High, playing the oddball aviator he had played on stage. He signed with New York-based Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies, when that series ended, he went to Hollywood to work in feature films. Aside from The Wizard of Oz, his career was limited. In the 1944 patriotic film Meet the People, Lahr uttered the phrase Heavens to Murgatroyd, later popularized by cartoon character Snagglepuss. Lahrs most famous role was that of the Cowardly Lion in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Lahr was signed to play the role on July 25,1938. He starred opposite Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Frank Morgan, Lahrs lion costume was composed of lion fur and, under the high-intensity lighting required for Ozs Technicolor scenes, the costume was unbearably hot. Lahr contributed ad-lib comedic lines for his character, many of Lahrs scenes took several takes because other cast members, especially Garland, couldnt complete the scenes without laughing. The Wizard of Oz was Lahrs 17th movie, when warned that Hollywood had a habit of typecasting actors, Lahr replied, Yeah, but how many parts are there for lions. He made the transition to straight theater and he got a script of Waiting for Godot, and was greatly impressed but unsure of how the revolutionary play would be received in the United States. It was performed in Europe to great acclaim, but was somewhat obscure and he co-starred in the US premiere of Waiting for Godot in 1956 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida, playing Estragon to Tom Ewells Vladimir. The performance bombed, with audience members walking out in numbers
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Bert Lahr, c. 1940s
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Bert Lahr at the Empress Theatre, 1916
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Lahr as the
Cowardly Lion in the MGM feature film
The Wizard of Oz, 1939
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Lahr as Skid in the Broadway revival of Burlesque, 1946
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Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot is Becketts translation of his own original French play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled a tragicomedy in two acts. The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949, the premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955, in a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1990 it was voted the “most significant English language play of the 20th century”. Vladimir takes up the thought loftily, while Estragon vaguely recalls having been beaten the night before, finally, his boots come off, while the pair ramble and bicker pointlessly. When Estragon suddenly decides to leave, Vladimir reminds him that they must stay, unfortunately, the pair cannot agree on where or when they are expected to meet with this Godot. They only know to wait at a tree, and there is indeed a leafless one nearby, eventually, Estragon dozes off and Vladimir rouses him but then stops him before he can share his dreams—another recurring activity between the two men. Estragon wants to hear an old joke, which Vladimir cannot finish without going off to urinate, since every time he starts laughing, upon Vladimirs return, the increasingly jaded Estragon suggests that they hang themselves, but they abandon the idea when the logistics seem ineffective. They then speculate on the rewards of continuing to wait for Godot. When Estragon declares his hunger, Vladimir provides a carrot, at which Estragon idly gnaws, Pozzo barks abusive orders at Lucky, which are always quietly followed, while acting civilly though tersely towards the other two. Pozzo enjoys a snack of chicken and wine, before casting the bones to the ground. Having been in a state of silence ever since the arrival of Pozzo and Lucky. Pozzo ignores this and explains his intention to sell Lucky, who begins to cry, Estragon takes pity and tries to wipe away Luckys tears, but, as he approaches, Lucky violently kicks him in the shin. Pozzo then rambles nostalgically but vaguely about his relationship with Lucky over the years, before offering Vladimir, Estragon begins to beg for money when Pozzo instead suggests that Lucky can dance and think for their entertainment. Luckys dance, the Net, is clumsy and shuffling, Luckys thinking is a long-winded and disjointed monologue—it is the first, Pozzo then has Lucky pack up his bags, and they hastily leave. Vladimir and Estragon, alone again, reflect on whether they met Pozzo, a boy then arrives, purporting to be a messenger sent from Godot to tell the pair that Godot will not be coming that evening but surely tomorrow. During Vladimirs interrogation of the boy, he asks if he came the day before, after the boy departs, the moon appears and the two men verbally agree to leave and find shelter for the night, but they merely stand without moving. It is daytime again and Vladimir begins singing a round about the death of a dog. Again, Estragon claims to have been beaten last night, despite no apparent injury, Vladimir comments that the formerly bare tree now has leaves and tries to confirm his recollections of yesterday against Estragons extremely vague, unreliable memory
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First English edition (publ.
Grove Press) translated by the author
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Vladimir and Estragon (June 2010 production of the play at
The Doon School, India)
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Mehdi Bajestani as masked
Lucky (production by
Naqshineh Theatre)
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Waiting for Godot, directed by
Macedonian theatre director Bore Angelovski
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
Bruce Kennedy holding an Emmy
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Baretta
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Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like. When Musante left the series after a season, the concept was retooled as Baretta. Like his model David Toma, Tony Baretta wore many disguises on the job, when not in disguise, Baretta usually wore a short-sleeve sweatshirt, casual slacks, a brown suede jacket and a newsboy cap. He often carried an unlit cigarette in his lips or behind his ear and his catchphrases included You can take dat to da bank and And dat‘s the name of dat tune. When exasperated he would speak in asides to his late father. Baretta drove a rusted-out Mist Blue 1966 Chevrolet Impala four-door sport sedan nicknamed The Blue Ghost and he hung out at Ross’s Billiard Academy and referred to his numerous girlfriends as his cousins. The music for the show was done by the Latin influenced rock group El Chicano from Los Angeles, who also released the song as a 45 and also a track on one of their albums. The Baretta theme song by El Chicano was a hit in many countries including Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, France. Billy Truman, retired cop who used to work with Barettas father Louie at the 53rd Precinct, rooster, a streetwise pimp and Barettas favorite informant. Inspector Shiller and Lieutenant Hal Brubaker, Barettas supervisors, little Moe, a shoeshine man and informant. Mr. Muncie, the owner of a store at 52nd. The theme song, Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow, was written by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames, initially an instrumental, lyrics were added in later seasons that were sung by Sammy Davis, Jr. Every episode of Baretta began with the song, which contained the motto, the song was released as a single in Europe in 1976, reaching number one in the Dutch Top 40 as Barettas Theme. The music for the song was performed by Los Angeles-based Latin influenced Rock band El Chicano from Los Angeles. El Chicano also released the song as a 45 and also as a track on one of their albums, the Baretta theme song by El Chicano was a huge hit in many countries including Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, France and The Philippines. After its initial run in syndication beginning in 1979, the series later re-appeared on TV Land in 1999 as part of a package of series licensed from Universal, me-TV aired reruns of Baretta on Saturday afternoons in 2007. On October 29,2002, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the first season of Baretta on Region 1 DVD in the United States and it is unknown if the remaining three seasons will be released
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Baretta title screen
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Baretta with Fred.
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Best of the West
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Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982. The Old West spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best, a Civil War veteran who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid, sams family was made up of his Southern-belle wife Elvira and his smart-mouthed son Daniel. The cast also included Leonard Frey as villain Parker Tillman, Tom Ewell as drunken town doctor Jerome Kullens, ABC delayed in renewing the series for a second season. Rather than waiting, Joel Higgins signed to star in the new series Silver Spoons on NBC, at that point, ABC announced that it had decided to renew but was cancelling due to the stars departure. In its short run, the managed to feature an array of guest stars. com Best of the West at epguides. com
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Leonard Frey and Joel Higgins
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Murder, She Wrote
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Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network and it was followed by four TV films and an unsuccessful spin-off series, which was produced in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw. In syndication, the series is highly successful throughout the world. Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards for her work on Murder, the series received three nominations but no wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same six times. After the series finished in 1996, four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, in 2009, a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform, followed in 2012 by a sequel. A spin-off book series, written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present, earlier, she had acted in two film adaptations of Agatha Christies mystery novels, as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile and as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crackd. With Murder, She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30,1984 and it also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christies Miss Marple novel 4,50 from Paddington. The show revolves around the life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a coastal community in Maine. Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in Mendocino, California, the show mostly starts with a preview of the episodes events, with Jessica stating, Tonight On Murder, She Wrote. Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, by carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer. Murder occurred with regularity in her vicinity that the term Cabot Cove syndrome was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Jessicas relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place, both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many departments across the U. S. as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology
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Angela Lansbury in September 1989
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Robert Blake (actor)
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Robert Blake is a retired American actor, having starring roles in the film In Cold Blood and the U. S. television series Baretta. Blake began performing as a child, with a role in the final years of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Our Gang short film series from 1939 to 1944. He also appeared as an actor in 22 entries of the Red Ryder film franchise. In the Red Ryder series and in many of his roles as an adult. After a stint in the Army, Blake returned to acting in television and movie roles. He was married to Sondra Kerr, his first wife, with whom he had two children, from 1964 until their divorce in 1983 and he continued acting through 1997s Lost Highway for a career that author Michael Newton called one of the longest in Hollywood history. In 2005, Blake was tried and acquitted of the 2001 murder of his second wife, on November 18,2005, he was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death. Blake was born Michael James Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey and his mother, Elizabeth Cafone, was married to Giacomo Gubitosi. In 1930, James worked as a die setter for a can manufacturer, eventually, James and Elizabeth began a song-and-dance act. In 1936, the three began performing, billed as The Three Little Hillbillies. They moved to Los Angeles, in 1938, where their children working as movie extras. Blake had a childhood and was allegedly abused by his alcoholic father. When he entered school at age 10, he was bullied and had fights. Blake states that he was physically and sexually abused by his parents while growing up and was locked in a closet. His father committed suicide in 1956, at age 14, he ran away from home, leading to several more difficult years. Then known as Mickey Gubitosi, Blake began his career as Toto in the MGM movie Bridal Suite starring Annabella. Gubitosi then began appearing in MGMs Our Gang short subjects under his real name and he appeared in 40 of the shorts between 1939 and 1944, eventually becoming the series final lead character. James and Giovanna Gubitosi also made appearances in the series as extras, in Our Gang, Gubitosis character, Mickey, was often called upon to cry, for which he was criticized for being unconvincing
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Blake in 1977
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Robert Blake in 1944
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Blake as Little Beaver
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As Baretta with Fred.
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Taxi (TV series)
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Taxi is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12,1978 to May 6,1982 and on NBC from September 30,1982 to June 15,1983. The series—which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series—focuses on the lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers. Taxi was produced by the John Charles Walters Company, in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, and Ed Weinberger. The show focuses on the employees of the fictional Sunshine Cab Company, among the drivers, only Alex Reiger, who is disillusioned with life, considers cab driving his profession. The others view it as a temporary job, Elaine Nardo is a single mother working as a receptionist at an art gallery. Tony Banta is a boxer with a losing record, Bobby Wheeler is a struggling actor. John Burns is working his way through college, All take pity on Reverend Jim Ignatowski, an aging hippie minister, who is burnt out from drugs, so they help him become a cabbie. The characters also included Latka Gravas, their innocent, wide-eyed mechanic from a foreign country, and Louie De Palma. A number of episodes involve a character having an opportunity to realize his or her dream to move up in the world, otherwise, the cabbies deal on a daily basis with their unsatisfying lives and with Louie DePalmas abusive behavior and contempt. Louies assistant, Jeff Bennett, is heard from at first. Alex Reiger – Alex is the sometimes caustic, but level-headed core of the show, at one point, he reveals his anxiety with this unwanted burden. He once worked in an office, with a chance of advancement. He was married to Phyllis Bornstein, and when she divorced him because of his lack of ambition she sought sole custody of their baby daughter and he gave in rather than fight it. He is also estranged from his father, Joe. Alex is a compulsive gambler, although he relapses in one episode. A deadpan cynic, he has resigned himself to driving a cab for the rest of his life, Bobby Wheeler – Bobby is a optimistically naive struggling actor whose flamboyance is Louies favourite target. Success eludes Bobby as a actor, once, he is signed up by a famous manager, but it turns out she does not want to represent him, she only wants him as a lover. Another time he is cast in a pilot for an opera called Boise
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Cast of the debut season (
ABC, 1978–79). From left to right: (back) Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch; (middle) Andy Kaufman, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza; (front) Randall Carver, Danny DeVito
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Cast of the final season (
NBC, 1982–83). From left to right: (back) Kaufman, Carol Kane, DeVito, Hirsch; (front) Danza, Henner, Christopher Lloyd
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George Abbott
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George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned nine decades. Abbott was born in Forestville, New York to George Burwell Abbott and he later moved to the town of Salamanca, which twice elected his father mayor. In 1898, his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he attended Kearney Military Academy, within a few years, his family returned to New York, and he graduated from Hamburg High School in 1907. Four years later, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester, Abbott then went to Harvard University, to take a course in playwriting from George Pierce Baker. Under Bakers tutelage, he wrote The Head of the Family and he then worked for a year as assistant stage manager at the Bijou Theatre in Boston, where his play The Man in the Manhole won a contest. Abbott started acting on Broadway in 1913, debuting in The Misleading Lady, while acting in several plays in New York City, he began to write, his first successful play was The Fall Guy. Abbott acquired a reputation as a show doctor. He frequently was called upon to supervise changes when a show was having difficulties in tryouts or previews prior to its Broadway opening and his first great hit was Broadway, written and directed in partnership with Philip Dunning, whose play Abbott rejiggered. It opened on September 16,1926, at the Broadhurst Theatre, other successes followed, and it was a rare year that did not have an Abbott production on Broadway. He also worked in Hollywood as a writer and director while continuing with his theater work, in 1963, he published his autobiography, Mister Abbott. Abbott was married to Edna Lewis from 1914 to her death in 1930, actress Mary Sinclair was his second wife. Their marriage lasted from 1946 until their 1951 divorce and he had a long romance with actress Maureen Stapleton from 1968 to 1978. She was 43 and he was 81 when they began their affair and his third wife was Joy Valderrama. They were married from 1983 until his death in 1995, Abbott was a vigorous man who remained active past his 100th birthday by golfing and dancing. He died of a stroke on January 31,1995, in Miami Beach, Florida, at the age of 106, he walked down the aisle on opening night of the Damn Yankees revival and received a standing ovation. He was heard saying to his companion, There must be somebody important here.1 In 1965, the building was demolished in 1970. New York Citys George Abbott Way, the section of West 45th Street northwest of Times Square, is named after him. He received New York Citys Handel Medallion in 1976, honorary doctorates from the Universities of Rochester and Miami, and he was also inducted into the Western New York Entertainment Hall of Fame and the American Theatre Hall of Fame
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George Abbott
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Woodland Hills, California
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Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Woodland Hills is an affluent neighborhood in the region of the San Fernando Valley which is located east of Calabasas. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U. S. Route 101 and Ventura Boulevard, the first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish missions and settlements locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España was established in 1797 and controlled the Valleys land, including future Woodland Hills. Ownership of the half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills. Moses Sherman and others in 1910, victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres in the area from Chandlers group and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers and his 300 pepper trees formed a canopy over Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, Woodland Hills has a firmly subtropical mediterranean climate. Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills generally experiences some of the extreme temperature changes season to season than other regions. During the summer, temperatures are very hot, while during the winter. On July 22,2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, the climate is classified as a Csa in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. This climate is referred to as mediterranean. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, in 2008 the population of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40, considered old when compared to city and county jurisdictions. As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79. 90% White,6. 97% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,3. 34% African American,0. 33% Native American,4. 80% from other races, and 4. 52% from two or more races. 11. 94% of the population were Hispanic of any race, in population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is high for the county
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Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including
Warner Center, from the Top of Topanga Overlook
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William Howard Taft High School
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Orr Barouch
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Ryan Lavarnway
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Daviess County, Kentucky
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Daviess County, is a county in the U. S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 96,656 and its county seat is Owensboro, which was named for Colonel Abraham Owen, killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The county was formed part of Ohio County on January 14,1815. Daviess County is included in the Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area, Daviess County also shares its namesake with another nearby Daviess County of Indiana. Both Counties are in the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Area, Daviess County was established in 1815. The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr, the courthouse burned in January 1865 during the American Civil War, but because the county records had been transferred to a church they were spared destruction. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 477 square miles. The northern half of the county along the Ohio River is relatively flat, the southern portion is mostly rolling hills mixed with flat valleys. The southern portion was mined for coal in the past, especially in the hills along Panther Creek. The population density was 198 per square mile, there were 38,432 housing units at an average density of 83 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 93. 69% White,4. 35% Black or African American,0. 13% Native American,0. 43% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 44% from other races, and 0. 94% from two or more races. 0. 92% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,27. 10% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the family size was 3.00. In the county, the population was out with 25. 80% under the age of 18,9. 00% from 18 to 24,28. 40% from 25 to 44,23. 00% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 92.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.30 males, the median income for a household in the county was $36,813, and the median income for a family was $45,404. Males had an income of $35,295 versus $21,971 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,739, about 9. 40% of families and 12. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15. 60% of those under age 18 and 11. 40% of those age 65 or over
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Daviess County courthouse in Owensboro
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
Operation Pillar of Defense.
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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Internet Broadway Database
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The Internet Broadway Database is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was conceived and created by Karen Hauser in 1996 and is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, the website also has a corresponding app for both the IOS and Android. This comprehensive history of Broadway provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre in the 18th century up to today, details include cast and creative lists for opening night and current day, song lists, awards and other interesting facts about every Broadway production. Other features of IBDB include an archive of photos from past and present Broadway productions, headshots, links to cast recordings on iTunes or Amazon, gross. Its mission was to be an interactive, user-friendly, searchable database for League members, journalists, researchers, the League recently added Broadway Touring shows to the database for ease of tracking shows that play in theatres across the country. It is managed by Karen Hauser, Michael Abourizk, and Mark Smith of the Broadway League, Internet Theatre Database – ITDb Internet Movie Database – IMDb Internet Book Database – IBookDb Lortel Archives – IOBDb The Broadway League Official website Broadway League website
Internet Broadway Database
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an
EAN-13 bar code
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Fredric March
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Fredric March was a distinguished stage actor and one of Hollywoods most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 40s. March is the actor to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin, the son of Cora Brown Marcher, a schoolteacher, and John F. Bickel, March attended the Winslow Elementary School, Racine High School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant. March received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway and he returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop Yr. Obedient Husband, but after the success of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth he focused as much on Broadway theatre as Hollywood. He also had successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961. He also starred in films as I Married a Witch and Another Part of the Forest during this period. On March 25,1954, March co-hosted the 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, marchs neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller, was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. In 1957, March was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in the 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind, in which he played a version of famous orator. Marchs Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracys Clarence Darrow-inspired character, the recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood, with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for cancer in 1970, it seemed his career was over, yet he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh, as the complicated Irish saloon keeper. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975 and he died from prostate cancer, at age 77, in Los Angeles, California, he was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut. Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party, biographies of March include Fredric March, Craftsman First, Star Second by Deborah C. Peterson, and Fredric March, A Consummate Actor by Charles Tranberg, Fredric March at the Internet Movie Database Fredric March at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs of Fredric March
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Circa 1940
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Warner Baxter,
June Lang and March in
The Road to Glory (1936)
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March with
Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born (1937)
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Henry Drummond (
Tracy, left) and Matthew Harrison Brady (March), right) in
Inherit the Wind. Previously, March had taken the role in The Desperate Hours originally offered to Tracy. Both men had also played Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
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Henry Fonda
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and he also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity. His family and close friends called him Hank, in 1999, he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Fondas ancestors from Genoa, Italy, migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century, in 1642, a branch of the Fonda family immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland on the East Coast of North America. They were among the first Dutch population to settle in what is now upstate New York, establishing the town of Fonda, by 1888, many of their descendants had relocated to Nebraska. Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, to advertising-printing jobber William Brace Fonda, Fonda was brought up as a Christian Scientist, though he was baptized an Episcopalian at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Grand Island. He said, My whole damn family was nice and they were a close family and highly supportive, especially in health matters, as they avoided doctors due to their religion. Despite having a background, he later became an agnostic. Fonda was a bashful, short boy who tended to avoid girls, except his sisters, and was a skater, swimmer. He worked part-time in his fathers print plant and imagined a career as a journalist. Later, he worked after school for the phone company, Fonda was active in the Boy Scouts of America, Teichmann reports that he reached the rank of Eagle Scout. When he was about 14, his father took him to observe the lynching of a black man accused of rape. This enraged the young Fonda and he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for the rest of his life, by his senior year in high school, Fonda had grown to more than six feet tall, but remained shy. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he majored in journalism and he took a job with the Retail Credit Company. He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, Fonda decided to quit his job and go East in 1928 to seek his fortune. He arrived on Cape Cod and played a role at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis. A friend took him to Falmouth, MA where he joined and quickly became a member of the University Players
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Fonda in
Slim (1937)
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Fonda in Jezebel
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Fonda in The Lady Eve
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Fonda after enlisting in the United States Navy in November 1942
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Paul Kelly (actor)
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Paul Michael Kelly was an American stage, film and television actor. His career survived a manslaughter conviction, tied to a sex scandal, born in Brooklyn, New York to a Roman Catholic family of Irish descent, Paul Michael Kelly was the ninth of ten children. His father owned a saloon, Kellys Kafe, in the shadow of Vitagraph Studios, on E. 14th St. in Midwood, after his fathers death, he began his career as a child actor at age 7 and was appearing on the stage. In 1911, Kelly began making silent films at age 12 with the Vitagraph Studios, which was based in Brooklyn, and where he was billed as Master Paul Kelly. Kelly was possibly the first male actor to be given any starring roles in American films, predating better remembered child stars such as Bobby Connelly. Kelly made his film debut in 1933s Broadway Through a Keyhole. In the course of his career, and relatively short life, it has estimated that Kelly worked on stage, screen. Later in his career, as an adult, Kelly appeared in films mostly as a character actor playing tough guys — some sympathetic. Kelly alternated between stage and screen as an actor and he was a handsome and popular male lead or costar in Broadway plays from the late 1910s and throughout the 1920s. In 1948, Kelly won a Best Actor Tony Award for his role in Command Decision, clark Gable later played the same role in the film version of the play. Kelly shared the award with Henry Fonda for Mister Roberts and Basil Rathbone for The Heiress and he served 25 months for manslaughter at San Quentin prison for the death of actor Ray Raymond, a few days after the men had a physical confrontation. On April 16,1927, a drunk Kelly confronted a drunk Raymond over Kellys affair with and love for Raymonds wife, Raymond was no match for Kelly, who bashed Raymonds head against a wall until he fell unconscious. The incident was witnessed by Raymonds daughter, Valerie, and the maid, Mackaye arrived home to tuck her groggy husband into bed. The next morning, Mackaye called a friend, Dr. Walter Sullivan, Raymond lingered for two days then succumbed to a brain hemorrhage. At his trial, Kelly contended that Raymond had started the fight, years later, Kelly played the part of San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy in Duffy of San Quentin. Mackaye had denied claims in court that she had been involved with Kelly before Raymonds death. She was not charged with perjury but with felony conspiracy for the attempted coverup, Kelly was sentenced to up to 10 years but served only 25 months. Kelly and Mackaye married in 1931 and were back on Broadway, then they returned to California, where Valerie Raymond was apparently adopted by her stepfather and became known as Mimi Kelly
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Kelly in
The High and the Mighty (1954)
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Mary Miles Minter (playing Anne Shirley) snuggles with Paul Kelly (Gilbert Blythe) in a scene still for the 1919 silent film
Anne of Green Gables
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Paul Kelly (1937), in
Fit for a King
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Basil Rathbone
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Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was a South African-born English actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films. Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield and his most famous role, however, was heroic — that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and won three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British parents. His mother, Anna Barbara, was a violinist, and his father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer and he had two older half-brothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John. Basil was the great-grandson of the noted Victorian philanthropist, William Rathbone V, the Rathbones fled to Britain when Basil was three years old after his father was accused by the Boers of being a spy after the Jameson Raid. He was a distant cousin of Major Henry Rathbone, who was present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and was wounded trying to stop John Wilkes Booth. Rathbone attended Repton School in Derbyshire from 1906–1910, where he excelled at sports. Thereafter, he was employed by the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Companies. In October 1912, he went to the United States with Bensons company, playing such parts as Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Silvius in As You Like It. Returning to Britain, he made his first appearance in London at the Savoy Theatre on 9 July 1914 and that December, he appeared at the Shaftesbury Theatre as the Dauphin in Henry V. During 1915, he toured with Benson and appeared with him at Londons Court Theatre in December as Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Rathbones younger brother John was killed in action on 4 June 1918. It was after this that Rathbone convinced his superiors to him to scout enemy positions during daylight rather than at night. Rathbone describes it thus in his autobiography Camouflage suits had been made for us to resemble trees, on our heads were wreaths of freshly plucked foliage, our faces and hands were blackened with burnt cork. As a result of highly dangerous daylight reconnaissance patrols in September 1918, he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous daring. Richard Van Emden in his book Famous 1914-18 speculates that this extreme bravery may have been a form of guilt or a need for following his brothers death. Two letters written by Rathbone to his family serving in the war have recently come to light
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from the trailer for the film
Tovarich (1937)
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Basil Rathbone as
Sherlock Holmes
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Rex Harrison
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Sir Reginald Carey Rex Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924 and he won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in the play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He won his second Tony for the role of Professor Henry Higgins in the production of My Fair Lady in 1957. He reprised the role for the 1964 film version, which earned him both a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Actor. In addition to his career, Harrison also appeared in numerous films, including Anna and the King of Siam, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cleopatra. In July 1989, Harrison was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, in 1975, Harrison released his first autobiography. His second, A Damned Serious Business, My Life in Comedy, was published posthumously in 1991, Harrison was married six times and had two sons, Noel and Carey Harrison. He continued working in stage productions until shortly before his death from cancer in June 1990 at the age of 82. Harrison was born at Derry House in Huyton, Lancashire, the son of Edith Mary and William Reginald Harrison and he was educated at Liverpool College. After a bout of measles, Harrison lost most of the sight in his left eye. He first appeared on the stage in 1924 in Liverpool, Harrisons acting career was interrupted during World War II while serving in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He acted in stage productions until 11 May 1990. He acted in the West End of London when he was young, appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, which proved to be his breakthrough role. He alternated appearances in London and New York in such plays as Bell, Book and Candle, Venus Observed, The Cocktail Party, The Kingfisher and The Love of Four Colonels, which he also directed. He was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, based on the eponymous Broadway production and he also starred in 1967s Doctor Dolittle. Harrison was at one point temporarily replaced by Christopher Plummer, until he agreed to be more cooperative and he starred in the 1968 comedy The Honey Pot, a modern adaptation of Ben Jonsons play Volpone. Two of his co-stars, Maggie Smith and Cliff Robertson, were to become lifelong friends, both spoke at his New York City memorial at the Little Church Around the Corner when Harrison died in 1990. Harrison was not by any standards a singer, the music was usually written to allow for long periods of recitative
Rex Harrison
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Harrison at his home in London in 1976, by
Allan Warren
Rex Harrison
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Harrison as
Julius Caesar in the film
Cleopatra for which he was nominated for an Academy Award
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Sidney Blackmer
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Sidney Alderman Blackmer was an American actor. Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of Clara Deroulhac and he started off in an insurance and financial business but gave up on it. While working as a laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Blackmer went to New York, hoping to act on the stage. He made his Broadway debut in 1917, but his career was interrupted by service in the U. S. military in World War I. After the war, he returned to the theatre and, in 1929, returned to motion pictures and he won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba, co-starring with Shirley Booth. In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U. S, in 1919, Blackmer played a major role in the strike that led to the formation of Actors Equity Association. A humanitarian, Blackmer served as the vice president of the United States Muscular Dystrophy Association. He also helped start up the North Carolina School of the Arts, in 1972, he was honored with the North Carolina Award in the Fine Arts category. It is the State of North Carolinas highest civilian award, on his death in 1973, Blackmer was interred in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina. Blackmer was married to actress Lenore Ulric from 1928–1939 and his second wife was Suzanne Kaaren to whom he was married from 1943 to his death in 1973. He and Kaaren had two sons and they lived in the family home in Salisbury, North Carolina. For his contribution to the picture industry, Sidney Blackmer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1625 Vine Street. Blackmer also appeared in roles, such as The Premature Burial episode of TV series Thriller,1961. He is perhaps best-remembered as Presidential candidate William Lyons Selby in the Outer Limits episode The Hundred Days of the Dragon, Sidney Blackmer at the Internet Movie Database Sidney Blackmer at the Internet Broadway Database Sidney Blackmer at Find a Grave Sidney Blackmer at AllMovie
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Promotional Photo
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Blackmer in the re-issue trailer for the 1934 film
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Blackmer in
The High and the Mighty
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Claude Rains
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William Claude Rains was an English film and stage actor whose career spanned 46 years. He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a nominee for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. Rains was considered to be one of the great character stars with an extraordinary voice who was, according to the All-Movie Guide. During his lengthy career he was admired by many of his contemporaries such as Bette Davis, Vincent Sherman, Ronald Neame. Rains also inspired many younger actors such as John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, William Claude Rains was born on 10 November 1889 in Camberwell, London. His parents were Emily Eliza and the stage actor Frederick William Rains and he lived in the slums of London and in his own words on the wrong side of the river Thames Rains was one of twelve children, all but three dying of malnutrition when still infants. His mother took in boarders in order to support the family, according to his daughter, he grew up with a very serious Cockney accent and a speech impediment which took the form of a stutter, which caused him to call himself Willie Wains. His native accent was so strong that his daughter couldnt understand a word he said when he used it to sing old Cockney songs to her or purposely use it to annoy her. Rains left school after the grade to sell papers so that he could bring the pennies and halfpennies home for his mother. He sang in the Palm Street Church choir which also him a few pence to take home. Due to his father being an actor the young Rains would spend time in theatres and surrounded by actors and it was here where he could watch actors up close as well as the day to day running of a theatre. Rains made his debut at the age of 10 in the play Sweet Nell of Old Drury at the Haymarket Theatre. At one time, he was involved in a gas attack which resulted in his losing 90 percent of the vision in his eye for the rest of his life. By the end of the war, he had risen from the rank of Private to that of Captain, after the war had ended Rains remained in England, where he continued to develop his acting talents. These talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and his daughter, Jessica, when describing her fathers voice said The interesting thing to me was that he became a different person. He became an elegant man, with a really extraordinary Mid-Atlantic accent. It was his voice, nobody else spoke like that, half American, half English, soon after he became recognised as one of the leading stage actors in London. Aged 29, he played the role of Clarkis in his one silent film which was a British film titled, during his early years, Rains also taught at RADA, where John Gielgud and Charles Laughton were some of his students
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Rains in the trailer for
Now, Voyager (1942)
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Rains in Camel through the Eye's Needle on
Broadway,
New York, 1929
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Rains in
Notorious (1946)
40.
David Wayne
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David Wayne was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years. Wayne was born Wayne James McMeekan in Traverse City, Michigan and his mother died when he was 4. He grew up in Bloomingdale, Michigan, when World War II began Wayne volunteered as an ambulance driver with the British Army in North Africa. When the United States entered the war he joined the United States Army, Waynes first major Broadway role was Og the leprechaun in Finians Rainbow, for which he won the Theatre World Award and the first ever Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. While appearing in the play, he and co-star Albert Sharpe were recruited by producer David O. Selznick to play Irish characters in the film Portrait of Jennie. It was in 1948 as well that Wayne became one of those fortunate 50 applicants granted membership in New Yorks newly formed Actors Studio. He was awarded a second Tony for Best Actor in a Play for The Teahouse of the August Moon and was nominated as Best Actor in a Musical for The Happy Time. He originated the role of Ensign Pulver in the stage comedy Mister Roberts and also appeared in Say, Darling, After the Fall. In films, Wayne most often was cast as a player, such as the charming cad and singer/songwriter/neighbor opposite Spencer Tracy. He portrayed the killer, originally played by Peter Lorre, in the remake of M. He costarred in The Tender Trap with Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Wayne also appeared in four films with Marilyn Monroe, As Young as You Feel, Were Not Married, O. Henrys Full House, and How to Marry a Millionaire. Wayne appeared in the late 1950s on ABCs The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom and he starred as Darius Woodley in two 1961 episodes of NBCs The Outlaws television series with Barton MacLane. Wayne was also noted for his portrayal of Dr. Charles Dutton in the 1971 film version of Michael Crichtons The Andromeda Strain and he also played the Mad Hatter, one of the recurring villains in the 1960s television series Batman. In 1964, he guest-starred in the finale, Pay Now, Die Later, of CBSs drama, Mr. Broadway. In the storyline, Waynes character, the wealthy John Zeck, in the 1960s, Wayne was a radio host on NBCs magazine program Monitor. Wayne appeared as Uncle Timothy Jamison in the NBC sitcom, The Brian Keith Show and he co-starred with Jim Hutton in the 1976 television series Ellery Queen. In 1978, Wayne played Digger Barnes in 4 episodes of the CBS soap opera Dallas, Wayne left that show to co-star in the 1979-82 television series House Calls with Lynn Redgrave and later Sharon Gless in the role of Dr. Amos Weatherby. Waynes friend, Keenan Wynn, replaced Wayne in the role of Digger Barnes, Wayne made a guest appearance in a 1975 episode of Gunsmoke titled I Have Promises to Keep
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from the trailer for
Adam's Rib (1949)
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Wayne and
Jean Peters in the
As Young as You Feel trailer, 1951
41.
Alfred Lunt
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Alfred Lunt was an American stage director and actor who had a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadways Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them, Lunt was one of 20th century Broadways leading male stars. Lunt received two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for 1931s The Guardsman and an Emmy Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fames production of The Magnificent Yankee. He became a star in 1919 as the lead in Booth Tarkingtons play, Clarence. His appearances in drama were infrequent, but he scored successes in Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew. He was described by director and critic Harold Clurman as universally acclaimed the finest American actor in the generation which followed John Barrymore, Alfred Davis Lunt, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1892 to Alfred D. Lunt and Harriet Washburn Briggs. With the exception of his grandmother, who was of Scottish descent, his ancestors were of colonial Maine. His father was descendant of Henry Lunt, a settler of Newbury. His mother had several New England ancestors, including Mayflower arrivals, after his father, who was in the lumber business, died in 1893, Alfreds mother remarried a Finnish-born physician, Dr. Karl Sederholm, and had another son and two daughters. The Sederholms eventually moved to Genesee Depot, in Waukesha County, Lunt later attended Carroll College in nearby Waukesha, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Lynn Fontanne, whom he married on May 26,1922, in New York City, were the pre-eminent Broadway acting couple of American history. Secure in their image as a happily married couple, they could play adulterers, as in Robert Sherwoods Reunion in Vienna. The Lunts appeared together in more than twenty plays and they also were featured, posthumously, on an American postage stamp. The couple made two films together The Guardsman, in which starred, and Stage Door Canteen in which they had cameos as themselves. In 1958 they retired from the stage and they starred in several radio dramas for the Theatre Guild in the 1940s, and starred in a few television productions in the 1950s and 1960s. Summers during their days of performing on stage and their subsequent retirement years were spent at their home Ten Chimneys at Genesee Depot in Lunts home state of Wisconsin, in 1964, Lunt and Fontanne were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson. Like Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt is represented in the American Theatre Hall of Fame, Alfred Lunt died August 3,1977, nine days before his 85th birthday, in Chicago from cancer. He is buried next to his wife at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee and he was the third person for whom the house lights were dimmed in all Broadway theaters following his death
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photographed by
Carl Van Vechten, 1932
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Lunt and Fontanne in 1950.
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Lunt as he appears at the
National Portrait Gallery in
Washington, D.C.
42.
Paul Muni
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Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago. He started his career in the Yiddish theatre. During the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Brothers studio, and was given the rare privilege of choosing which parts he wanted. He was also skilled in using makeup techniques, a talent he learned from his parents, who were also actors. At the age of 12, he played the role of an 80-year-old man, in one of his films, Seven Faces. He made 25 films and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1936 film The Story of Louis Pasteur. He also starred in numerous Broadway plays and won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in the 1955 production of Inherit the Wind. His Hebrew name was Meshilem, he was also called Frederich Meier Weisenfreund, born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia and his parents were Salli and Phillip Weisenfreund. He learned Yiddish as his first language, when he was seven, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1902, they settled in Chicago. As a boy, he was known as Moony and he started his acting career in the Yiddish theatre in Chicago with his parents, who were both actors. As a teenager, he developed a skill in creating makeup, Film historian Robert Osborne notes that Munis makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, he transformed his appearance so completely, he was dubbed the New Lon Chaney. In his first stage role at the age of 12, Muni played the role of an 80-year-old man and he was quickly recognized by Maurice Schwartz, who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and Paul Muni were cousins to Charles M. Fritz, Muni began acting on Broadway in 1926. His first role was that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans, written by playwrights Max Siegel and it was the first time that he ever acted in English. In 1921, he married Bella Finkel, an actress in the Yiddish theatre and they remained married until Munis death in 1967. In 1929 Muni was signed by Fox and his name was simplified and anglicized to Paul Muni. His acting talents were recognized and he received an Oscar nomination for his first film, The Valiant. His second film, Seven Faces, was also a financial failure, unhappy with the roles offered him, he returned to Broadway, where he starred in a major hit play, Counselor at Law
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His makeup skills were used for The Story of Louis Pasteur
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New York City opening of A Flag is Born (1946)
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Paul Muni in the trailer for Scarface.
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Ralph Bellamy
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, ralph Rexford Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Lilla Louise, a native of Canada and he ran away from home when he was 15 and managed to get into a road show. He toured with road shows before landing in New York City. He began acting on stage there and by 1927 owned his own theater company, in 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade both as a lead and as a capable supporting actor. He co-starred in five films with Fay Wray and his film career began with The Secret Six starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. He played in seven films in 1934 alone, including Woman in the Dark, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, in which Bellamy played the lead. He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his career did not progress, he returned to the stage. Bellamy appeared in movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance with Maureen OHara and Lucille Ball. The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956, who starred in NBCs Meet McGraw detective series. Bellamy appeared on television in numerous roles over the following years and he was a regular panelist on the CBS television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run. Bellamy starred as Willard Mitchell, along with Patricia Breslin and Paul Fix, about this same time, he also appeared on the NBC anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show. In December 1961, he portrayed the part of Judge Quince in the episode Judgement at Hondo Seco on CBSs Rawhide, during the 1963–1964 television season, Bellamy co-starred with Jack Ging in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in the role of a psychiatrist in private practice. Wendell Corey had appeared in the first season of the series, Bellamy appeared on Broadway in one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. He later starred in the 1960 film version, in the summer of 1961, Bellamy hosted nine original episodes of a CBS Western anthology series called Frontier Justice, a Dick Powell Four Star Television production. In 1950 Bellamy became a member of The Lambs, a club located in New York. Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served as a four-term President of Actors Equity from 1952–1964, among many roles in numerous shows, sometimes as a series regular, Bellamy portrayed Adlai Stevenson in the 1974 TV-movie The Missiles of October, a treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cary Grant,
Rosalind Russell and Bellamy in a publicity shot for
His Girl Friday (1940)
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Gloria McGhee and Ralph Bellamy in
Man Against Crime (1953)
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As
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1960)
44.
Jason Robards
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Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was a winner of the Tony Award, two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award and he was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II. He became famous playing works of American playwright Eugene ONeill and regularly performed in ONeills works throughout his career, Robards was cast both in common-man roles and as well-known historical figures. Robards was born in Chicago, the son of Hope Maxine Robards and Jason Robards, Sr. an actor who appeared on the stage. Robards was of German, English, Welsh, Irish, the family moved to New York City when Jason Jr. was still a toddler, and then moved to Los Angeles when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents divorce, as a youth, Robards also witnessed first-hand the decline of his fathers acting career. The teenage Robards excelled in athletics, running a 4, 18-mile during his year at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles. Although his prowess in sports attracted interest from several universities, Robards decided to enlist in the United States Navy upon his graduation in 1940. Following the completion of training and radio school, Robards was assigned to a heavy cruiser. On December 7,1941, the Northampton was at sea in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles off Hawaii, contrary to some stories, he did not see the devastation of the Japanese attack on Hawaii until the Northampton returned to Pearl Harbor two days later. The Northampton was later directed into the Guadalcanal campaign in World War IIs Pacific theater, during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the waters north of Guadalcanal on the night of November 30,1942, the Northampton was sunk by hits from two Japanese torpedoes. Robards found himself treading water until near daybreak, when he was rescued by an American destroyer, for her service in the war, the Northampton was awarded six battle stars. Two years later, in November 1944, Robards was radioman on the USS Nashville, on December 13, she was struck by a kamikaze aircraft off Negros Island in the Philippines. The aircraft hit one of the port five-inch gun mounts, while its two bombs set the midsection ablaze, with this damage and 223 casualties, the Nashville was forced to return to Pearl Harbor and then to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, for repairs. Robards served honorably during the war, but was not a recipient of the U. S. Navy Cross for bravery, contrary to what has been reported in numerous sources, the inaccurate story derives from a 1979 column by Hy Gardner. On the Nashville, Robards first found a copy of Eugene ONeills play Strange Interlude in the ships library, also while in the Navy, he first started thinking seriously about becoming an actor. He had emceed for a Navy band in Pearl Harbor, got a few laughs and his father suggested he enroll in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Robards was awarded the Good Conduct Medal of the Navy, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Robards got into acting after the war and his career began slowly
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In
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
45.
Melvyn Douglas
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Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor. Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a leading man. Douglas later took mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud and Being There, Douglas was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Lena Priscilla and Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, a concert pianist and composer. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Riga, Latvia, then part of Russia and his mother, a native of Tennessee, was Protestant and a Mayflower descendant. His maternal grandfather, George Shackelford, was a General and Civil War veteran and it was his aunts, on his fathers side, who told him the truth when he was 14. He writes that he admired them unstintingly, and they in turn treated him like a son, though his father taught music at a succession of colleges in the U. S. and Canada, Douglas never graduated from high school. He took the surname of his grandmother and became known as Melvyn Douglas. Douglas developed his skills in Shakespearean repertory while in his teens and with stock companies in Sioux City, Iowa, Evansville, Indiana, Madison, Wisconsin and Detroit. He served in the United States Army in World War I and he established an outdoor theatre in Chicago. He had a theatre, film and television career as a lead player. Douglas shared top billing with Boris Karloff and Charles Laughton in James Whales sardonic horror classic The Old Dark House in 1932 and he was the hero in the 1932 horror film The Vampire Bat and the sophisticated leading man in 1935s She Married Her Boss. He played opposite Joan Crawford in several films, most notably A Womans Face, one of his most sympathetic roles was as the belatedly attentive father in Captains Courageous. During World War II, Douglas served first as a director of the Arts Council in the Office of Civilian Defense, and he then again served in the United States Army rising to the rank of Major. According to his granddaughter Illeana Douglas, it was in Burma when he first met his future Being There co-star Peter Sellers and he returned to play more mature roles in The Sea of Grass and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. In 1959 he made his debut playing Captain Boyle in the ill-fated Marc Blitzstein musical Juno, based on Seán OCaseys Juno. From November 1952 to January 1953, Douglas starred in the DuMont detective show Steve Randall which then moved to CBS, in the summer of 1953, he briefly hosted the DuMont game show Blind Date. In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice and he won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Being There. However, Douglas confirmed in one of his interviews that he refused to attend the 52nd Academy Awards because he could not bear competing against child actor Justin Henry for Kramer vs. Kramer
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studio publicity photo of Douglas, c. 1939
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With Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (1939)
46.
Zero Mostel
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Mostel was a student of Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory. He was blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee was well-publicized and he was an Obie Award and three-time Tony Award winner. Mostel was born to Israel Mostel, an Ashkenazi Jew of Eastern European origin, and Cina Celia Druchs, the two immigrated to the United States separately – Israel in 1898 and Cina in 1908 – where they met and married. Israel already had four children from his first wife, he had four children with Cina. Samuel, later known as Zero, was Israels seventh child, according to his brother, Bill Mostel, their mother coined the nickname Zero, noting that if he continued to do poorly at school, he would amount to a Zero. Initially living in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, the moved to Moodus, Connecticut. The familys income in those days came from a winery and a slaughterhouse, the farm did not do well. While not at poverty level, the family struggled financially, as a child, Mostel was described by his family as outgoing and lively, and with a developed sense of humor. He showed an intelligence and perception that convinced his father he had the makings of a rabbi, however, Mostel preferred painting and drawing, a passion he was to retain for life. According to Roger Butterfield, his mother made a practice of dressing the boy in a velvet suit, Zero had a favorite painting, John White Alexanders Study in Black and Green, which he copied every day, to the delight of the gallery crowds. One afternoon, while a crowd was watching over his shoulder, he solemnly copied the whole painting upside down. The fact that at home he spoke English, Yiddish, Italian and German helped him out to audiences of many ethnicities in New York. He attended Public School 188, where he was an A student and he also received professional training as a painter through The Educational Alliance. He completed his school education at Seward Park High, where his yearbook noted. Mostel attended the City College of New York, a college that allowed many poor students to pursue higher education. He later claimed that he was on the team and the Reserve Officers Training Corps. As only beginner classes were available in art, Mostel took them repeatedly to be able to paint, during that time he worked odd jobs, and graduated in 1935 with a bachelors degree. He then continued studying towards an MA, and also joined the Public Works of Art Project, in 1939 he married Clara Sverd, and the couple moved to an apartment in Brooklyn
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Performing in 1959
Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel
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In the Broadway play Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
47.
Paul Scofield
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David Paul Scofield CH CBE was an English actor of stage and screen who was known for his striking presence, distinctive voice, and for the clarity and effortless intensity of his delivery. Regarded as one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time and this, and his decision to put his family first, has meant that he has never been as well known outside the United Kingdom as some other actors. Outside his homeland, Scofield is best known for his Academy, Golden Globe, Scofield had originally played the same part on stage in the West End and in a Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway. Actress Helen Mirren, who appeared with Scofield in the 1989 film When the Whales Came, said of him and he has no sense of personal ambition. Hes one of our great, great actors, in 1990, actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson, who played Scofields son in Franco Zeffirellis Hamlet, compared the experience to being thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson. Paul Scofield was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the son of Mary, when Scofield was a few weeks old, his family moved to Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, where his father served as the headmaster at the Hurstpierpoint Church of England School. Scofield told his biographer, Garry OConnor, that his upbringing was divided and his father was an Anglican and his mother a Roman Catholic. Baptised into his mothers faith, Scofield said, some days we were little Protestants and, on others and he added, A lack of direction in spiritual matters is still with me. Scofield recalls, I was a dunce at school, but at the age of twelve I went to Varndean School at Brighton where I discovered Shakespeare. They did one of his plays every year, and I lived just for that, in 1939, Scofield left school at the age of seventeen and began training at the Croydon Repertory Theatre. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Scofield arrived for an examination and was ruled unfit for service in the British Army. He later recalled, They found I had crossed toes, I was unable to wear boots. He played at the Old Rep in Birmingham, from there he went to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, where he starred in Walter Nugent Moncks 1947 revival of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Also in 1947, Scofield appeared as Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre alongside a then unknown Claire Bloom as Ophelia, in her later book, Leaving a Dolls House, A Memoir, Bloom recalls that during the production she had a serious crush on Scofield. As Scofield was happily married and the father of a son, Bloom hoped only to be flirted with and taken some notice of. She later recalled, I could never make up my mind which of my two Hamlets I found the more devastating, the homosexual, charismatic Helpmann, or the charming. She was a very good Ophelia, in his memoir Threads of Time, director Peter Brook wrote about Scofields versatility, The door at the back of the set opened, and a small man entered. He was wearing a suit, steel-rimmed glasses and holding a suitcase
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Scofield in 1974.
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Arthur Hill (actor)
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Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and American theatre, films and television. He attended the University of British Columbia and continued his studies in Seattle. Hill made his Broadway debut as Cornelius Hackl in the 1957 revival of Thornton Wilders The Matchmaker, in 1963 he won the Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actor for his portrayal of George in the original Broadway production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. His other Broadway credits include Ben Gant in the production of Ketti Fringss Look Homeward, Angel, All the Way Home, Something More. He played Dr. Jeremy Stone in the adaptation of Michael Crichtons The Andromeda Strain. Other film work included roles in The Ugly American with Marlon Brando, Harper, scott, The Chairman, Sam Peckinpahs The Killer Elite, Michael Crichtons Futureworld, A Bridge Too Far and he narrated the film version of Ray Bradburys Something Wicked This Way Comes. Arguably, Hills most famous acting role was that of lawyer Owen Marshall and he appeared on many other series, including CBSs The Reporter, a 1964 drama starring Harry Guardino. He also played Grandpa Lansford Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie, Hill died in a Pacific Palisades, California nursing home, aged 84, after a long battle with Alzheimers disease. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean, Arthur Hill at the Internet Movie Database Arthur Hill at the Internet Broadway Database Arthur Hill at Find a Grave
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Hill in 1971 as Owen Marshall.
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Alec Guinness
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Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and he is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucass original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and a Tony Award, in 1959, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980, Guinness was born at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, as Alec Guinness de Cuffe. His mothers maiden name was Agnes Cuff and she was born 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinnesss birth certificate, the space for the name shows Agnes de Cuffe. The space for the name says Alec Guinness. The column for name and surname of father is blank, the identity of Guinnesss father has never been officially confirmed. From 1875, under English law, when the birth of a child was registered. Guinness himself believed that his father was a Scottish banker, Andrew Geddes, Geddes occasionally visited Guinness and his mother, posing as an uncle. Guinnesss mother later had a marriage to a British soldier who had survived the Irish War of Independence. His behaviour was erratic or even violent. Guinness first worked writing advertising copy and he appeared at the Albery Theatre in 1936 at the age of 22, playing the role of Osric in John Gielguds successful production of Hamlet. Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, in 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardreys Thunder Rock. An early influence from afar was Stan Laurel, whom Guinness admired, Guinness continued playing Shakespearean roles throughout his career. In 1937, he played Aumerle in Richard II and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice under the direction of John Gielgud and he starred in a 1938 production of Hamlet which won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1939, he adapted Great Expectations for the stage, playing Herbert Pocket, one of its viewers was a young British film editor, David Lean, who would later have Guinness reprise his role in Leans 1946 film adaptation of the play. Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941 and he commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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Sir Alec Guinness in 1973 by
Allan Warren
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Alec Guinness – 1938
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Guinness with
Rita Tushingham in
Doctor Zhivago
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The graves of Sir Alec Guinness and his wife in Petersfield, Hampshire
