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Debbie Reynolds
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Mary Frances Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. In 1959, she released her first pop album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun, Divorce American Style, Charlottes Web, Mother, and In & Out. Reynolds was also a cabaret performer, in 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the The Debbie Reynolds Show, in 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love, at the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disneys Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie, My Life, in 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable, A Memoir. She served as president of The Thalians, a dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties, in January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, on December 28,2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a severe stroke. She died from the stroke that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was born on April 1,1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene Minnie and Raymond Francis Ray Reynolds and she was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church. She had a two years her senior. Reynolds was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the worlds oldest living Girl Scout and her mother took in laundry for income, while they lived in a shack on Magnolia Street in El Paso. And Im trying to inculcate in my children the same sense of values and her family moved to Burbank, California in 1939. When Reynolds was a student at Burbank High School in 1948. Soon after, she had a contract with Warner Bros and acquired the nickname Debbie via Jack L. Warner, One of her closest high school friends said that she rarely dated during her teenage years in Burbank
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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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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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Rose Marie
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Rose Marie Mazetta, known professionally as Rose Marie, is an American actress. As a child performer she had a singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville and one of its last surviving stars, her career includes film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares, Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name Baby Rose Marie, at five, she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films. Rose Marie was a nightclub and lounge performer in her years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as The Darling of the Airwaves, according to her autobiography, Hold the Roses, she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the night of the Flamingo Hotel, which was built by Siegel. At her height of fame as a singer, from late 1929 to 1934, she had her own radio show, made numerous records. In 1929, the singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder, now restored. DVD set of The Jazz Singer and she continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, International House, with W. C. Between 1930 and 1938, she made 17 recordings, three of which were unissued and her first issued record, recorded on March 10,1932, featured accompaniment by Fletcher Hendersons band, one of the premier black jazz orchestras. According to Hendersonia, the bio-discography by Walter C and her recording Say That You Were Teasing Me also featured Hendersons orchestra and was a national Top 20 hit, peaking at #19 in May 1932. According to Joel Whitburn, Rose Marie is the only pre-World War II hitmaker still living as of 2016, in the 1960–61 season, Rose Marie costarred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen. After five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rose Marie costarred in two seasons of CBSs The Doris Day Show as Doris Martins friend and coworker, Myrna Gibbons and she also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series The Monkees in the mid-1960s. She later had a seat in the upper center square on the original version of Hollywood Squares, alongside her friend and longtime Dick Van Dyke co-star. She also appeared on both the 1986 and 1998 syndicated revivals, Rose Marie performed on three 1966 and 1967 episodes of The Dean Martin Show variety series on NBC and also twice on The Hollywood Palace on ABC
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Tracey Takes On...
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Tracey Takes On. is an HBO sketch comedy series starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons, and won multiple awards, Each week, each episode would focus on, or take on, a certain subject giving the show focus. Ullman decided on twenty characters to each episode, unlike her Fox series. Shooting the show on location gave her the ability to apply makeup, wigs, the Tracey Ullman Show featured makeups that had not been conducted to a live audience. Ullman found herself fainting on the floor, having to be revived. HBO commissioned a Takes On series after two specials were screened, Tracey Ullman, A Class Act, and Tracey Ullman Takes On New York. Cable television gave her the freedom to create content that would be considered unsuitable for network television, many Tracey Ullman Show alums, such as Julie Kavner, guest-starred throughout the run of the series. Ullman created and portrayed a wide spectrum of characters, men and women of all ages, of different ethnic or cultural backgrounds, the show was known to push the envelope with little to no controversy. Only her character Kay would return from The Tracey Ullman Show, over the course of the show, Ullman played a total of twenty-nine characters. In 2003, the character Ruby Romaine was spun-off into a television series for HBO. A pilot was filmed but a series was never green-lighted by the network. The pilot was aired as a special, Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales. In 1998, Ullman released a book based on the series, in 1990, Ullmans husband, television producer, Allan McKeown placed a bid for a television network. His bid included a possible show lineup, among the shows he submitted, he included a Tracey Ullman special. Ullman, who had just ended the run of her eponymous Fox series, had just given birth to their son, when McKeown informed her of the schedule he submitted, she expected nothing would come of it. When McKeown informed her that his bid was successful, Ullman felt a sense of dread, the special turned out to be Tracey Ullman, A Class Act, a show that poked fun at the British class system. The specials success led to HBOs interest in having Ullman do a special for their network and they requested that the show focus on a more American subject. That special, Tracey Ullman Takes On New York, was an award-winning success and its result led to HBO asking Ullman and McKeown doing a Takes On series
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My Girl (Madness song)
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My Girl is a song by British ska/pop group Madness from their debut album, One Step Beyond. It was written by Mike Barson, the song was released as a single on 21 December 1979 and spent 10 weeks on the UK Singles Chart peaking at number 3. The song was reissued in 1992 following the success of the reissued It Must Be Love and it reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart. The song first made its way into the set when they were performing as The Invaders. The first performance of the came in July 1978, when it was performed by the band at the Blind Alley Shop. Barson originally performed lead vocals, and even sang on the demo for the song, having written the song about his then girlfriend, however, Suggs took over the vocal duties before long, and sang the album version of the song. When the group performed the song on Top of the Pops in January 1980, the music video for My Girl features Madness performing the song at the Dublin Castle pub, London. For the video, the stage was extended especially, in order to ensure that the band could perform comfortably, a demo version of My Girl was released on the B-Side of the 12 version of The Return of the Los Palmas 7, featuring Mike Barson on vocals. In 2006, The Ordinary Boys released a recording of the song at the Brixton Academy featuring Suggs. On 2 May 2008, Graham McPherson and Carl Smyth performed a new arrangement by Pet Shop Boys live at the Heaven in London and they appeared as part of Pet Shop Boys live set during the benefit evening for Dainton Connells family, Can You Bear It. A Pet Shop Boys version of the song appears on the Pet Shop Boys Christmas EP, Barson wrote a follow-up song, My Girl 2, which was recorded by Madness and released as a single in 2012. Though it contains the phrase my girl, My Girl 2 is otherwise musically and lyrically quite distinct from My Girl, in addition to its single release and appearance on the album One Step Beyond. My Girl also appears on the Madness collections Divine Madness, Complete Madness, Madness, Total Madness and The Business. These are the formats and track listings of single releases of My Girl. 7 vinyl single 12 vinyl single 7 vinyl single The song Precious One is to date the only Madness original to have released only as a live version. Tracey Ullman covered Madnesss My Girl in 1984, the title was changed to My Guy, and the single was titled My Guys Mad at Me. Madness Mark Bedford played bass on the track and her version was in the UK Top 40 at the same time as Madness Michael Caine and peaked at number 23. The music video featured the British politician Neil Kinnock, at the time the Leader of the Opposition, the single was also released as a 7 picture disc, with a picture of Ullman and Kinnock sitting at a table
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The Tracey Ullman Show
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The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5,1987, as the Fox networks second prime-time series after Married, with Children, and ran until May 26,1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, the show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. By the 1980s, acclaimed television producer James L. Brooks, had left the industry for the big screen. At the time that he won the Oscar for his film, Terms of Endearment, Brooks began receiving videotapes from Ullmans Los Angeles agent, hoping to get his attention. Ullman, who was famous in her homeland, England, was already landing a variety of television deals and proposals in America. These projects did not suit Ullmans interests, shows with morals, where everyone learns something at the end of the show, related Ullman to a television critic for TV Guide in 1989, describing the television show ideas that were offered to her. Brooks was so taken by what he saw in Ullman that he decided to take the young actress under his wing, Brooks was determined to develop the right vehicle to showcase Ullmans talents — acting, dancing, and singing — and decided to create a sketch comedy show. A typical episode would begin with Ullman giving an introduction, ostensibly from her dressing room. Then two or three comedy sketches would be presented in episode, most designed to showcase Ullmans ability to skillfully mimic various accents. One popular recurring character was timid, slow-talking Kay Typically, the sketch of the night would include a musical and/or dance number featuring Ullman solo or other members of the cast. The final segment saw Ullman, clad in a robe, deliver a monologue to the studio audience before ending the show with her catchphrase Go Home. Go Home. and dancing as the credits rolled, Ullman often talked about her husband, Allan McKeown, and her daughter, Mabel. Ullman chose the phrase, Go home, during the pilot episode because she could not think of anything clever to end with. Ullman performed an array of characters, most only appeared once, as the sketches concentrated on plot, with characters created to best tell that particular storyline. A handful of characters did return for subsequent sketches. Among the recurring characters portrayed by other cast members, besides those mentioned, were Gulliver Dark, singer and rival to Marty Tish, and Dr. Alexander Gibson. In the course of its four season run, Ullman performed a total of 108 characters, the Tracey Ullman Show regularly featured short animated cartoons as interstitials in the first three seasons
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Barbara Bain
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Barbara Bain is an American film and television actress. She is known for co-starring in the original Mission, Impossible television series in the 1960s as Cinnamon Carter, Bain was born Mildred Fogel in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modeling, jobs with Vogue, Harpers, and other publications followed. Still uninspired, however, Bain entered the Theater Studio to study acting, first under Curt Conway, progressing to the Actors Studio, she was instructed by Lee Strasberg. Bains first acting role was in Paddy Chayevskys play Middle of the Night, accompanying Bain was fellow actor and new husband Martin Landau, the final leg of the tour brought the couple to Los Angeles, where they settled permanently. After moving, Bain established herself at the Actors Studio West, in 1965, she guest-starred alongside series star Jerry Van Dyke in an episode of My Mother The Car, which also featured Avery Schreibers recurring role of Captain Bernard Manzini. She also appeared in the 1966 final episode of the series alongside Van Dyke and she won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in 1967,1968, and 1969, in addition to a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1968. She starred opposite Landau again in the science-fiction TV series Space,1999, as Dr. Helena Russell, and the made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligans Island. Bain also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, in the episode Will You Two Be My Wife. and My So-Called Life, other appearances include Matroyoshka, an episode of the 1990s science-fiction series Millennium. In 1998, Bain appeared in the Walker, Texas Ranger episode Saving Grace, in 2006, she had a minor role in one episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. In 2008, co-starring with her daughter Juliet Landau, Bain voiced the character of Verdona Tennyson in What Are Little Girls Made Of. an episode of Ben 10, Alien Force. On April 28,2016, Bain was honored with the 2, 579th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, lifelong friends Edward Asner and Dick Van Dyke were on hand to speak and assist in the unveiling of the star. Bain married actor Martin Landau in 1957, they divorced in 1993, the couple has two daughters, actress Juliet Landau and film producer Susan Bain Landau Finch. She has contributed to charitable causes, including literacy. Barbara Bain at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Barbara Bain, October,2014, Ames Tribune
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George Schlatter
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George Schlatter is an American television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martins Laugh-In and founder of the American Comedy Awards. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd, Schlatter was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Webster Groves, Missouri, a St. Louis inner-ring suburb. Born the son of a violinist mother and a salesman father, as a teenager, Schlatter sang for two seasons with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, where his mother also performed. He attended Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California and he was a Hollywood agent in the band and act department of MCA Records. After several years he left to general manager at the Sunset Strip nightclub Ciros. Following a short stint in Las Vegas, he started producing variety series, Schlatter began his long association with NBC in the 1950s, where he helped create variety shows for Dinah Shore, Nat King Cole, and Andy Williams. Between 1964 and 1970, he oversaw the annual telecast of the Grammy Awards, in 1968, he formed George Schlatter Productions, noted for Rowan and Martins Laugh In on NBC. In the 1970s and 1980s, Schlatter produced and/or directed several television series, in 1987, he started The American Comedy Awards, which has become an annual event. Schlatter also produced a few films, and owns The Editing Company. He is married to former actress Jolene Brand who was a regular on the The Ernie Kovacs Show, Andrea Justine is a champion equestrian rider. Maria S. Schlatter is an Emmy award winning television producer, as of 2016, Schlatter was collaborating with author Kliph Nesteroff on a memoir. He is continuing to produce, and recently created reality show The Boulevard in conjunction with David DiVona, a partial listing of his television achievements follows. A partial listing of films that he produced and/or directed follows and he was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America award in 1997. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd and he received the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters on February 10,2017. George Schlatter at the Internet Movie Database George Schlatter at TVGuide. com Official website George Schlatter interview video at the Archive of American Television
