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Anne Francine
Anne Hollingshead Francine (August 8, 1917 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress and cabaret singer. Biography Francine was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia socialite parents Albert and Emilie Francine. She was raised in the Main Line region of suburban Philadelphia. She won an amateur singing contest and began performing as a cabaret singer in the 1930s at the Coq Rouge. Other notable engagements included the Copacabana and the Algonquin. She sang abroad in London and Paris in the 1940s. Her signature songs were '' The Lamp is Low'' and ''Raggedy Ann''. She made her Broadway debut in 1954 with Shirley Booth in '' By the Beautiful Sea''. She stepped in for Bea Arthur as Vera Charles in the 1966 Broadway production of ''Mame'', starring Angela Lansbury. She and Lansbury reprised their characters in the 1983 revival. She last appeared on Broadway in 1987 as Mrs. Harcourt in the Lincoln Center revival of ''Anything Goes'', starring Patti LuPone. She po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead; August 23, 1931) is an American actress and singer, who starred as the title character in the sitcom ''I Dream of Jeannie'' (1965–1970). Her other roles included Roslyn Pierce opposite Elvis Presley in ''Flaming Star'' (1960), Lieutenant Junior Grade, Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors in ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' (1961), and a single widowed mother, Stella Johnson, in the comedy film ''Harper Valley PTA (film), Harper Valley PTA'' (1978) and in Harper Valley PTA (TV series), the television series. Eden began singing in bands as a teenager and studied singing and acting. In 1955, she began her television career with appearances on ''The Johnny Carson Show'' and on various other series, such as ''Burke's Law (1963 TV series), Burke's Law''. By 1957, she was starring in the comedy TV series ''How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series), How to Marry a Millionaire''. She also began to act in plays. In 1959, she had her first major film rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mame (musical)
''Mame'' is a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Originally titled ''My Best Girl'', it is based on the 1955 novel '' Auntie Mame'' by Patrick Dennis and the 1956 Broadway play of the same name by Lawrence and Lee. A period piece set in New York City and spanning the Great Depression and World War II, it focuses on eccentric bohemian Mame Dennis, whose famous motto is "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." Her fabulous life with her wealthy friends is interrupted when the young son of her late brother arrives to live with her. They cope with the Depression in a series of adventures. The musical opened on Broadway in 1966, starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur. The production became a hit and spawned a 1974 film version with Lucille Ball in the title role, and Arthur reprising her supporting role; as well as a London production, a Broadway revival, and a 40th anniversa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterford, Connecticut
Waterford is a town in New London County, Connecticut, New London County, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Waterford, Ireland. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 19,571 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town center is listed as a census-designated place (CDP) and had a population of 3,074 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 26.43%, is water. The town center CDP has a total area of , all land. Waterford is bordered on the west by the Niantic River. Principal communities *Waterford (CDP), Connecticut, Waterford *Graniteville Historic District (Waterford, Connecticut), Graniteville *Jordan Village, Connecticut, Jordan *Millstone *Morningside Park *Quaker Hill, Connecticut, Quaker Hill (06375) **Bartlett Point, Best View, Thames View Other minor commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White. It is commonly referred to as The O'Neill, seating just over 1,000 guests. The center has received two Tony Awards, the 1979 Special Award and the 2010 Regional Theatre Award. President Obama presented the 2015 National Medal of Arts to The O'Neill on September 22, 2016. The O'Neill is a multi-disciplinary institution; it has had a transformative effect on American theater. The O'Neill pioneered play development and stage readings as a tool for new plays and musicals. It is home to the National Theater Institute (established 1970), an intensive study-away semester for undergraduates. Its major theater conferences include the National Playwrights Conference (est. 1964); the National Critics Conference (est. 1968), the National Musical Theater Conference (est. 1978), the National Puppetry Conference (est. 1990), and the Cabaret & Performanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocodile Dundee
''Crocodile Dundee'' is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton. Inspired by the true-life exploits of Rod Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September in the United States, it was the highest-grossing film of all time in Australia, the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide, the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in 1986, the highest-grossing non-US film at the US box office ever and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide for the year. There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and an international version, which had much of the Australian slang replaced with mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savages (1972 Film)
''Savages'' is a 1972 Merchant Ivory Film directed by James Ivory and screenplay by George W. S. Trow and Michael O'Donoghue, based on an idea by Ivory. The film concept given to Trow and O'Donoghue was to tell a story that was the reverse of Luis Buñuel's 1962 film ''The Exterminating Angel (film), The Exterminating Angel'', in which guests at an elegant dinner party become bestial. Writing began in late 1968 and continued through 1969. Its first showing came at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1972. Synopsis In contrast to Buñuel's story, ''Savages'' starts when a tribe of primitive "mudpeople" performing a sacrifice encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Westchester estate in the 1930s. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stand Up And Be Counted
''Stand Up and Be Counted'' is a 1972 American comedy film directed by Jackie Cooper and starring Jacqueline Bisset and Stella Stevens. It features the recording of "I Am Woman" (1971) by Helen Reddy. Plot Cast * Jacqueline Bisset - Sheila Hammond * Stella Stevens - Yvonne Kellerman * Steve Lawrence - Gary McBride * Gary Lockwood - Eliot Travis * Lee Purcell - Karen Hammond * Loretta Swit - Hilary McBride * Héctor Elizondo - Lou Kellerman * Anne Francine - Mabel Hammond * Madlyn Rhue - Gloria Seagar * Alex Wilson - Jerry Kamanski * Michael Ansara - Playboy Speaker * Joyce Brothers - Herself * Jessica Rains - Sadie * Meredith Baxter - Tracy See also * List of American films of 1972 This is a list of American films released in 1972. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1972, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows: January–March April–June is ... External links * *https://www. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Of The Spirits
''Juliet of the Spirits'' () is a 1965 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, and Valeska Gert. The film is about the visions, memories, and mysticism that help a middle-aged woman find the strength to leave her philandering husband. The film uses "caricatural types and dream situations to represent a psychic landscape". It was Fellini's first feature-length color film, but followed his use of color in "The Temptation of Doctor Antonio" episode in the portmanteau film, ''Boccaccio '70'' (1962). The film was shown in competition at the 26th Venice International Film Festival; and received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Set Decoration. It won the 1966 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Giulietta Masina won a David di Donatello for her performance. Woody Allen loosely remade it with his 1990 film ''Alice''. Plot Giulietta Boldrini, an up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937 Film)
''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually Magic (paranormal), magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The Film genre, genre is considered a form of speculative fic ... produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the Snow White, 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the production was supervised by David Hand (animator), David Hand, and was directed by five sequence directors, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben Sharpsteen. It is the first animated feature film produced in the United States and the first Traditional animation, cel animated feature film. ''Snow White'' premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1937, and went into general release in the United States on February 4, 1938. Despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (musical)
''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, and additional music and lyrics by Jay Blackton and Joe Cook, and book by Cook. Adapted from the Disney 1937 animated film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' – which in turn had been based on the Grimm's fairy tale "Snow White" – about a princess banished from her kingdom by her vain stepmother, and she comes to live with seven dwarfs in their woodland home. First produced in 1969, the show carries much of the film's score over, by Churchill and Morey, along with four new songs by Blackton and Cook. It ran a total of 106 performances. Productions The stage adaptation was originally created at The Muny in St. Louis in 1969 and was repeated there in 1972. A production opened at the Radio City Music Hall on October 18, 1979, and closed a month later, after 38 performances, in order for Radio City to put on the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (went up November 25, 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Queen (Disney)
The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen, Queen Grimhilde, Evil Stepmother, or just the Queen, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937) and remains a villain character in their extended Snow White (franchise), ''Snow White'' franchise. She is based on the Evil Queen character from the 1812 German fairy tale "Snow White". The Evil Queen is very cold, sadistic, cruel, and extremely vain, owning a magic mirror, and obsessively desiring to remain the "fairest in the land". She becomes madly envious over the beauty of her stepdaughter, Princess Snow White (Disney character), Snow White, as well as the attentions of the Prince from another land; this love triangle element is one of Disney's changes to the story. This leads her to plot the death of Snow White and ultimately on the path to her own demise, which in the film is indirectly caused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harper Valley PTA (TV Series)
''Harper Valley PTA'' (known simply as ''Harper Valley'' during its second season) is an American sitcom television series based on the 1978 film of the same name, which was itself based on the 1968 country song of the same name recorded by singer Jeannie C. Riley and written by Tom T. Hall. The series, starring Barbara Eden who reprised her role from the film, aired on NBC from January 16, 1981, to August 14, 1982. Synopsis The series went on to flesh out the story in the song, as it told of the adventures of Stella Johnson (Barbara Eden), a widowed single mother to teenager Dee (Jenn Thompson), who lived in the fictional town of Harper Valley, Ohio. The town was dominated by the namesakes of the founder, the Harper family, most prominently represented by the mayor, Otis Harper, Jr (George Gobel). Mrs. Johnson's flouting of the small town's conventions, and exposure of the hypocrisy of many of its other notorious residents, provided the humor. Her most notable foes were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
