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Paula Trueman
Paula Trueman (April 25, 1897 – March 23, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actress.Year of birth confirmed by 1920, 1930 and 1940 US census records as well as her 1922 U.S. passport application.U.S. passport application stamped September 16, 1922 ancestry.com; accessed November 15, 2016. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also administers Hunter College High School and Hunter College Elementary School. Hunter was founded in 1870 as a women's college; it first admitted male freshmen in 1946. The main campus has been located on Park Avenue since 1873. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated Franklin Delano Roosevelt's and her former townhouse to the college; the building was reopened in 2010 as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. The institution has a 57% undergraduate graduation rate within six years. History Founding Hunter College originates from the 19th-century movement for Normal school, normal school training for teachers which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School, establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All My Children
''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, ''All My Children'' is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont, Pennsylvania, Penn Valley. The original series featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime television's most popular characters. ''All My Children'' was the first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s. Originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc., the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob, the show was sold to ABC in January 1970. The series started with half-hour episodes before expanding to a full hour on April 25, 1977. The show had experimented with the full-hour format for one week starting on Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio One (American TV Series)
''Studio One'' is an American anthology drama television series that was adapted from a radio series. It was created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. It premiered on November 7, 1948, and ended on September 29, 1958, with a total of 467 episodes over the course of 10 seasons. History Radio On April 29, 1947, Fletcher Markle launched the 60-minute CBS Radio series with an adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's ''Under the Volcano''. Broadcast on Tuesdays opposite '' Fibber McGee and Molly'' and '' The Bob Hope Show'' at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, the radio series continued until July 27, 1948, showcasing such adaptations as '' Dodsworth'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', '' The Red Badge of Courage'' and '' Ah, Wilderness''. Top performers were heard on this series, including John Garfield, Walter Huston, Mercedes McCambridge, Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. CBS Radio received a Peabody Award for ''Studio One'' in 1947, citing Markle's choi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Lorraine (film)
''Sweet Lorraine'' is a 1987 American film directed by Steve Gomer in his directorial debut. The film draws from Gomer's adolescent experiences at the Heiden Hotel in the Catskills. Plot During summer, Molly Garber meets her grandmother Lillian at the Lorraine, a Catskill Mountains, Catskills resort that appears to be nearing the end of its days. Owned by Lillian, The Lorraine, once the crown jewel of the Borscht Belt, is now dilapidated, staffed by a number of rambunctious kids, and barely held together by a single handyman. The hotel is being pursued by developers and the returning clientele comes to stay more out of nostalgia than anything. The film follows Molly's camaraderie with the staff and the bond she has with her grandmother, her affair with the hotel's sole handyman, and her subsequent determination to rescue the Lorraine from being sold. Cast * Maureen Stapleton as Lillian Garber * Trini Alvarado as Molly * Lee Richardson (actor), Lee Richardson as Sam * John Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seize The Day (film)
''Seize the Day'' is a 1986 American film directed by Fielder Cook. It stars Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller and Joseph Wiseman, and is based on the novel of the same name by Saul Bellow. It was broadcast on the PBS series, ''Great Performances'', in May 1987. Plot In 1956, after losing his job as a traveling salesman of children's furniture, down-on-his-luck Tommy Wilhelm leaves Massachusetts for New York City. He is under financial strain because of the demands of his wife, from whom he is separated. He moves into the same hotel that houses his physician father, Dr. Adler, with whom he has a strained relationship. Flashbacks show how Tommy moved to Los Angeles, changed his name, and tried to become an actor, which failed. His marriage failed, so he left his wife, and is estranged from their two sons. In New York, Tommy becomes involved with Dr. Tamkin, an acquaintance of his father, who speculates in the commodities market. Tommy agrees to open an account managed by Tamkin on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Quigley
''Grace Quigley'' (also titled ''The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley'') is a 1985 American black comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Nick Nolte, produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and directed by Anthony Harvey. The film is noted for being Hepburn's last leading role in a film for the big screen, as well as the last appearance, stage or otherwise, of Walter Abel. The film is primarily set in New York City. An elderly widow is suicidal, but survives repeated suicide attempts. She hires a contract killer to end her life, and also asks him to kill other lonely old people. She views these acts as mercy killings, not murders. Plot The plot centers on Grace, an elderly widow who lives alone in a dreary New York City apartment. She has twice survived her own suicide attempts, so she decides to hire Seymour, a hit man, to kill her and then do in others like her who are old, alone and tired of living. To her way of thinking, this professional killer will be committing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can't Stop The Music
''Can't Stop the Music'' is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker in her only directed featured film. Written by Allan Carr and Bronté Woodard, the film is a pseudo-biography of the 1970s disco group the Village People loosely based on the actual story of how the group formed. The film also stars Valerie Perrine, Caitlyn Jenner in her film debut, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Sand, Tammy Grimes, June Havoc, Barbara Rush, Altovise Davis, Marilyn Sokol and The Ritchie Family in their only film. Produced by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment (formerly EMI Films), distributed by independent distributor Associated Film Distribution (AFD), the film was released after disco's peak. It received largely negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. Alongside '' Xanadu'', ''Can't Stop the Music'' is known for inspiring the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards, winning the first Razzies for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Plot Songwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stepford Wives (1975 Film)
''The Stepford Wives'' is a 1975 American satirical psychological thriller film directed by Bryan Forbes. It was written by William Goldman, who based his screenplay on Ira Levin's 1972 novel of the same name. The film stars Katharine Ross as a woman who relocates with her husband ( Peter Masterson) and children from New York City to the Connecticut community of Stepford, where she comes to find that the women live lives of unwavering subservience to their husbands. Filmed in Connecticut in 1974, ''The Stepford Wives'' was released theatrically in February 1975. It grossed $4 million at the U.S. box office, though it received mixed reviews from critics. Reaction from feminist activists was also divided at the time of its release; Betty Friedan dismissed it as a "rip-off of the women's movement" and discouraged women from seeing it, though others such as Gael Greene and Eleanor Perry defended the film. ''The Stepford Wives'' has grown in stature as a cult film over the yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homebodies (film)
''Homebodies'' is a 1974 comedy horror film directed by Larry Yust. The film features a cast of veteran actors, including Ian Wolfe, Ruth McDevitt, Peter Brocco, and Douglas Fowley. The film centers on elderly residents resorting to murder to protect their condemned building. Plot A quiet, elderly group of pensioners discover that their homes are scheduled to be demolished in order to make way for a block of flats. Their attempts to discourage the developers soon escalate from dissuasion to murder as they begin to rid themselves of both the developers and the construction workers by any means necessary. Cast * Peter Brocco as Mr. Blakely * Frances Fuller as Miss Emily * William Hansen as Mr. Sandy * Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. Loomis * Paula Trueman as Mattie * Ian Wolfe as Mr. Loomis * Linda Marsh as Miss Pollack * Douglas Fowley as Mr. Crawford Production Principal photography for ''Homebodies'' took place in 1973, on location in Cincinnati, Ohio. The film's cast was compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Anderson Tapes
''The Anderson Tapes'' is a 1971 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery and featuring Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Garrett Morris, Margaret Hamilton, and Alan King. The screenplay by Frank Pierson was based on the 1970 epistolary novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders, which consists primarily of transcripts of tape recordings. The film is scored by Quincy Jones and marks the feature film debut of Christopher Walken. It was the first major film to focus on the pervasiveness of electronic surveillance, from security cameras in public places to hidden recording devices. Plot Safe-cracker John "Duke" Anderson is released after ten years in prison. He immediately renews his relationship with his old girlfriend, Ingrid Everleigh. While Anderson was away in prison, Ingrid has been "kept" by a wealthy man named Werner, who put her up in an Upper East Side apartment block in Manhattan. Anderson determines rapidly to burgle the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Foot In Heaven
''One Foot in Heaven'' is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart and Elisabeth Fraser. The film was adapted by Casey Robinson from the autobiography by Hartzell Spence. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Plot In Stratford, Ontario, in 1904, William Spence ( Fredric March), a medical student on the verge of becoming a doctor, receives " The Call" while passing a Methodist church one Sunday. His bride-to-be, Hope Morris ( Martha Scott), accepts his decision to enter the ministry with a whole heart despite the disappointment of her prominent and affluent parents. Will "dives right in," but, with no vacancies in Canada, is posted as a circuit minister to a small town in rural Iowa, beginning a life for them of frequent moves around the district, dingy parsonages, and scraping a living from poor boxes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
