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Ellen Weston
Ellen Weston (born Ellen Weinstein) is an American actress, producer, and writer. Early years Born in New York City, Weston is the daughter of educators; her mother was a teacher, and her father was a superintendent of schools. She attended Performing Arts High School, Hofstra University, New York University, and Hunter College. She completed work on her Bachelor of Arts degree two years after she dropped out to act full-time. Career Weston's Broadway credits include '' Toys in the Attic'', '' A Far Country'', and '' Mary, Mary''. Her first notable television role was a stint as Robin Fletcher on ''Guiding Light'' from 1963 to 1964, followed by another daytime role as Karen Gregory on '' Another World''. From 1978 to 1980, she appeared as Derek's ex-wife on ''The Young and the Restless''. She portrayed Betty Harrelson in '' S.W.A.T.'' and Dr. Steele in ''Get Smart''. She also appeared in '' The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'', ''Bonanza'', ''Wonder Woman'', '' Bewitched'', '' Hawk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lasell
John Whitin Lasell Jr. (November 6, 1928 – October 4, 2024) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing parapsychologist Dr. Peter Guthrie in the American soap opera television series ''Dark Shadows''. Life and career Lasell was born in Williamstown, Vermont, on November 6, 1928. He began his television career in 1960 in the anthology television series ''Armstrong Circle Theatre''. In the same year he appeared in ''Hong Kong'' and '' Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond''. Lasell played John Wilkes Booth in the anthology television series ''The Twilight Zone'' in the episode " Back There". He played the recurring roles of Dr. Robbins in '' Lassie'' and Benjamin Wedlock in the drama television series '' Dan August'', and made three appearances in the legal drama television series '' Perry Mason''. Lasell guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''Gunsmoke'' (S7E3 as outlaw Tucker Ferrin in the episode “Miss Kitty”), ''Wagon Train'', '' Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonder Woman (TV Series)
''Wonder Woman'', known for seasons 2 and 3 as ''The New Adventures of Wonder Woman'', is an American superhero television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name. It stars Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr. and Jr., and aired for three seasons, from 1975 to 1979. The show's first season aired on ABC and is set in the 1940s, during World War II. The second and third seasons aired on CBS and are set in the then-current day late 1970s, with the title changed to ''The New Adventures of Wonder Woman''. Plot In 1942, during World War II, American pilot Major Steve Trevor (Waggoner) bails out during an air battle over the Bermuda Triangle, location of Paradise Island. The island is home to the Amazons: beautiful, ageless women with great strength, agility, and intelligence. Amazon princess Diana (Carter) rescues the handsome unconscious Trevor and helps nurse him back to health. Diana's mother, the Amazo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Nye
Carolyn Nye McGeoy (October 14, 1936 – July 14, 2006), known professionally as Carrie Nye, was an American actress. In her career spanning 32 years, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1965, a Primetime Emmy Award in 1980, and a Drama Desk Award in 1981. Early life Nye was born Carolyn Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, Mississippi, the only child of Frank Rice McGeoy, president of a local bank, and Emma Evelyn (Reddett) McGeoy. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, then attended the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1959. She met Dick Cavett at Yale. They married in 1964. Career Most of Nye's work was on the stage. She joined the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1955 and portrayed a number of roles at the festival through the 1960s and 1970s. Among her credits were the leads in '' The Skin of Our Teeth'' and ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. She was in the American Shakespeare Festival that performed ''Troilus and Cressida'' at the White House during the Kenned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Conboy
John Conboy (March 1934 – January 2018) was an American soap opera producer until his death in January 2018. Life and career Conboy was born in 1934 in Binghamton, New York. After high school, he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts. Conboy started his entertainment career as an actor. In 1970, he switched to a producing role, starting with the show '' Love is a Many Splendored Thing''. He won an Emmy Award in 1973 as a producer on ''The ABC Afternoon Playbreak''. Conboy then became a producer on ''The Young and the Restless'', eventually rising to executive producer and earning two more Emmys. In 1982, Conboy left ''The Young and the Restless'' and became executive producer of the newly created CBS soap opera '' Capitol''. He served as the show's executive producer until the series was cancelled in 1987. During the last few years of ''Capitol'', he created ''Casino'' which was set in Las Vegas. It was not picked up. Conboy was hired as executive pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonny And Cher
Sonny & Cher were an American pop and entertainment duo in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of spouses Sonny Bono and Cher. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector. The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, " Baby Don't Go" and " I Got You Babe". Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as the soundtrack recordings for two unsuccessful movies, '' Good Times'' and ''Chastity'', with Cher contributing vocals to one cut, "Chastity's Song (Band of Thieves)". In 1972, after three years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label. In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top-ten TV shows in the US, ''The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour'' and '' The Sonny & Cher Show''. The couple's career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce. In the decade they spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol (TV Series)
''Capitol'' is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from March 29, 1982, to March 20, 1987, for 1,270 episodes. As its name suggests, the storyline usually revolved around the political intrigues of people whose lives are intertwined in Washington, D.C. Prior to its March 29th daytime debut on the CBS schedule, a one-hour pilot episode aired on Friday night (March 26th) immediately following an episode of ''Dallas''. Synopsis ''Capitol'' revolves around the Denning, Clegg, and McCandless families, who live in the fictional Jeffersonia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. At the center of the drama are feuding matriarchs Clarissa Tyler McCandless ( Constance Towers) and Myrna Clegg ( Carolyn Jones; Marla Adams; Marj Dusay). Kindly and down-to-earth Clarissa and vituperative and vindictive Myrna are former best friends who in their youth had been rivals over the love of Baxter McCandless; in retaliation for Baxter falling for Clarissa and not her, scheming Myrna had spread li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someplace Else Now
The discography of American singer and songwriter, Lesley Gore, contains 12 studio albums, nine compilation albums, 37 singles and three other charted songs. Her debut single was 1963's "It's My Party", which reached number one on five major charts: the US Hot 100, the US R&B chart, the Australian Kent Music Report, the Canadian CHUM Chart and New Zealand's RIANZ chart. It was followed by her debut studio album in 1963 titled ''I'll Cry If I Want To'', which reached number 24 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. " Judy's Turn to Cry" was Gore's second single and was also spawned from the album, reaching the top ten in the US, Canada and New Zealand. Gore's next two singles reached the top ten in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden: "She's a Fool" and "You Don't Own Me". Both appeared on her second LP, '' Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts'' (1963). Gore's third and fourth studio albums were released in 1964: '' Boys, Boys, Boys'' and '' Girl Talk''. Both albums reached p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein, May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015) was an American singer and songwriter. At the age of 16, she recorded her first hit song " It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed it up with ten further US ''Billboard'' top 40 hits including " Judy's Turn to Cry" and " You Don't Own Me". Gore said she considered "You Don't Own Me" her signature song. Gore later worked as an actress and television personality. She composed songs with her brother Michael Gore for the 1980 film '' Fame'', which received an Academy Award Best Song nomination for "Out Here On My Own". She hosted several editions of the LGBT-oriented public television show '' In the Life'' on American TV in the 2000s. Early life and education Gore was born Lesley Sue Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, into a middle-class Jewish family. Her parents were Leo Goldstein and Ronny Gore. The family changed their surname to "Gore" soon after Leslie's bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge Of The Stepford Wives
''Revenge of the Stepford Wives'' is a 1980 American made-for-television science-fiction thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel ''The Stepford Wives''. It was directed by Robert Fuest with a screenplay by David Wiltse and starring Sharon Gless, Julie Kavner, Don Johnson, Arthur Hill, and Audra Lindley. It is the first in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film ''The Stepford Wives''. Plot Set 10 years after the original film, a prologue sets the scene as a couple unhappy in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, attempts to leave town; they are killed by the police chief. Spirited investigative TV reporter Kaye Foster (Gless) arrives in Stepford to cover a story about the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates, as well as the tightest real-estate market in the country. She immediately notices the beautiful, but compliant and domestic women of the town, who take a pill four times a day when an eerie siren sounds (they each claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Questor Tapes
''The Questor Tapes'' is a 1974 American made-for-television sci-fi drama film about an android (portrayed by Robert Foxworth) with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose. Conceived by Gene Roddenberry, who is credited as executive consultant, the script is credited to Roddenberry and fellow ''Star Trek'' alumnus Gene L. Coon. The pilot was directed by Richard Colla. A novelization, written by D. C. Fontana (another ''Star Trek'' alumna), was dedicated to Coon, who died before the program was broadcast. Plot Project Questor is the brainchild of the genius Emil Vaslovik, Ph.D., a Nobel laureate, to build a superhuman android. A team of the world's foremost experts is able to build the android despite not understand the components with which they are working — they are only able to follow the instructions and install the parts left by Vaslovik, who has disappeared. Attempts to decode the programming tape erased approximately half of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle On 34th Street (1973 Film)
''Miracle on 34th Street'' is a 1973 American made-for-television Christmas comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Fielder Cook. It is the third remake of the original 1947 film. Like the original, this film was produced by 20th Century Fox. Additionally, the New York City-based Macy's department store allowed their name to be used in this film, unlike the later version. Plot When an old man spies the department store Santa Claus getting drunk before taking part in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, he immediately complains to Karen Walker, the parade director. She fires her Santa, and the old man, who is named Kris Kringle, volunteers to take his place for the children's sake. Kris does so well that he is hired to be the store's main Santa for the holidays. At the same time, Karen's daughter, Susan, an intelligent but cynical six-year-old, meets her new neighbor, Bill Schafner, a lawyer, and decides to try and hook him up with her mother. Kris, to the horror of Mr. Shellhammer, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letters From Three Lovers
''Letters from Three Lovers'' is a 1973 made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman. An ''ABC Movie of the Week'' and a sequel to '' The Letters'' (1973), the film is co-produced by Aaron Spelling, written by Ann Marcus and stars Martin Sheen, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Sterling, June Allyson, Ken Berry and Juliet Mills, among others. '''' Plot A mailman ( Henry Jones) speaks about three stories of lives completely changed by letters which were temporarily lost when the mail plane crashed ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
