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Anjanette Comer
Anjanette Comer (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress. Early years Born in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin Comer, Jr., and Nola Dell "Sue" (Perkins) Comer, she attended Dawson High School. Comer gained acting experience at the Pasadena Playhouse. Career Comer's first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1962 episode of ''My Three Sons'' titled "Heat Wave", followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as '' Dr. Kildare'' and ''Bonanza''. In 1964, she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress for her work on an episode on ''Arrest and Trial''. She made her film debut as the female lead in the 1964 comedy '' Quick, Before It Melts'', followed by a memorable role in the 1965 satire ''The Loved One'', playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement? Some people just lately have preferred e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawson, Texas
Dawson is a town in Navarro County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 815 at the 2020 census. History The town was established in 1847 and was the second town established in the county. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and 0.56% is covered by water. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen climate classification, Dawson has a humid subtropical climate,''Cfa'' on climate maps. Demographics As of the census of 2000, 852 people, 361 households, and 229 families were residing in the town. The population density was . The 408 housing units averaged 230.2 per square mile (89.0/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 80.99% White, 15.14% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 1.64% from other races, and 2.00% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 6.34% of the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Appaloosa (film)
''The Appaloosa'' (also known as ''Southwest to Sonora'') is a 1966 American Western film starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, and shot in Techniscope in California, Utah, and Arizona. Plot Based on the 1963 book by Robert MacLeod, the title character is a beautiful horse (a breed, the Appaloosa) belonging to Matt Fletcher (Marlon Brando), a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who returns home, only to have his beloved horse stolen by a powerful bandit, Chuy Medina (John Saxon) with the help of the bandit's girlfriend, Trini (Anjanette Comer) in the border town of Ojo Prieto. Trini was sold to Chuy at the age of 15, but has been brutalized and effectively discarded. Fletcher begins to hunt down the bandit to recapture the horse, but finds matters more complicated than expected when he meets the bandit's girlfriend. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bird Of The Air
''A Bird of the Air'' is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Margaret Whitton and starring Rachel Nichols and Jackson Hurst. It is based on the novel ''The Loop'' by Joe Coomer. Synopsis Lyman is a highway worker who spends most of his days barely speaking due to his shyness and a past trauma. This changes when he encounters a parrot owned by Fiona, a peppy librarian that takes an immediate interest in him. Cast * Jackson Hurst as Lyman * Rachel Nichols as Fiona * Linda Emond as Margie *Buck Henry as Duncan Weber *Judith Ivey as Eleanor Reeves *Gary Farmer as Charles Ballard *Genia Michaela as Amber *Anjanette Comer as Mrs. Weber *Phyllis Somerville as Ivy Campbell * Erik Jensen as Bearded Man *Matte Osian as Trucker *Rocco Sisto as Security Guard * Louis Zorich as Stowalski Development Plans to adapt Joe Coomer's novel ''The Loop'' were first announced in 2009, under the working title of ''The Loop''. Rachel Nichols and Jackson Hurst were announced to perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherworld (film)
''Netherworld'' is a 1992 American horror film written and directed by David Schmoeller and produced by Charles Band. Synopsis After his father dies, Corey Thorton inherits his father's estate in Louisiana, only to find that his father plans to sacrifice his soul to live again. Cast * Michael Bendetti as Corey Thorton * Denise Gentile as Delores * Holly Floria as Diane Palmer * Robert Sampson as Noah Thorton * Holly Butler as Marilyn Monroe * Alex Datcher as Mary Magdalene * Robert Burr as Beauregard Yates, Esq. * George Kelly as Bijou * Mark Kemble as Barbusoir * Michael Lowry as Stemsy * David Schmoeller as Billy C. Production The film was originally to be produced in Romania, but Band moved it to New Orleans, Louisiana. Reception Writing in ''The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia'', academic Peter Dendle called it "an unremarkble Dixieland shocker from dubious Full Moon studios". Lawrence Cohn of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepke (film)
''Lepke'' is a 1975 film starring Tony Curtis as the Jewish-American gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. It is often regarded by film critics as one of Tony Curtis's most underrated movies and one of his finest performances Cast * Tony Curtis as Louis "Lepke" Buchalter * Anjanette Comer as Bernice Meyer * Michael Callan as Robert Kane * Warren Berlinger as Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro * Gianni Russo as Albert "Lord High Executioner" Anastasia * Milton Berle as Mr. Meyer * Vic Tayback as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano * Mary Charlotte Wilcox as Marion * Vaughn Meader as Walter Winchell Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and c ... Production Menahem Golan had been a successful filmmaker in Israel and had ambitions to break into Hollywood. ''Lepke'' was to be the first of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Feast (1972 Film)
''Blood Feast'' (Spanish: ''La noche de los mil gatos'', ''Night of a Thousand Cats'') is a 1972 Mexican exploitation horror film written and directed by René Cardona Jr. It was released in the United States in 1974. Plot Hugo, a playboy serial killer ( Hugo Stiglitz), stalks beautiful women in his helicopter, seducing them under false pretenses and inviting them to his castle estate. There, he kills them in various gruesome ways with the help of his groundskeeper, Dorgo. He then uses their flesh to feed a plethora of cats that he keeps in a fenced-in pit and preserves their pickled heads as trophies inside glass jars. A doctor who stops by the castle and eventually even his groundskeeper also become meals for the cats. Eventually, one brave woman lacks fear of death, and she miraculously escapes his clutches, accidentally making a hole in the fence around the cat pit (which eventually allows the cats to escape). During the fight, Hugo gets hit in the face. Sensing his injury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Enemy Country
''In Enemy Country'' is a 1968 American war film produced and directed by Harry Keller starring Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer and Guy Stockwell.Jorgensen p.336 The film's art direction was by John Beckman and Alexander Golitzen. Plot During World War II a group of Allied agents are sent on a secret mission to German-occupied France to destroy a dangerous new weapon. Cast Bibliography * Jay Jorgensen. ''Edith Head: The Fifty-year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer''. Running Press, 2010. See also *List of American films of 1968 This is a list of American films released in 1968. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1968, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows: January–March April–June ... References External links * 1968 films 1968 war films American war films Films directed by Harry Keller Universal Pictures films Films set in France American World War II f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bataille De San Sebastian
''Guns for San Sebastian'' () is a 1968 French Western film based on the 1962 novel ''A Wall for San Sebastian'', written by Rev. Fr. William Barnaby "Barby" Faherty, S.J. The film is directed by Frenchman Henri Verneuil, and stars Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer and Charles Bronson. The score is by Ennio Morricone, who would then use his work in this film as an inspiration for the main theme in '' The Mercenary''. Filming took place in Sierra de Órganos National Park in the town of Sombrerete, Mexico It was made as a co-production between France, Italy, and Mexico. It is a rare instance of a French Western actually being shot in Mexico, instead of substituting Spain or some similar European location. Plot In 1746, on the lawless northern frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, womanizing Mestizo outlaw and Spanish Royal Army deserter Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn) is wounded and pursued into a church by a posse of soldiers. He is granted sanctuary by a sympathetic pries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Sale (film)
''Fire Sale'' is a 1977 American comedy film starring Alan Arkin (who also directed) as Ezra Fikus, Rob Reiner as his brother Russell, Vincent Gardenia as their father Benny, Sid Caesar as Benny's brother Sherman, Anjanette Comer as Marion (Ezra's wife), and Kay Medford as Ruth (Benny's wife). Plot Benny Fikus decides to cash in on his business' fire insurance by committing arson. Benny plans to have Sherman, who is in a mental hospital believing that World War II is still being fought, escape and burn down Benny's failing clothing store which he has made Sherman believe is a Nazi military headquarters. During a vacation trip with Marion, Benny has a heart attack, and his sons Ezra and Russell take over the store. The low self-esteemed Russell wants to expand the store and marry his girlfriend, while Ezra needs money to adopt an orphaned 6'8" African-American teenage boy named Booker T (Byron Stewart). Ezra needs Booker T. to play on the high-school basketball team he coaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbit, Run (film)
''Rabbit, Run '' is a 1970 American independent drama film directed by Jack Smight. The film was adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel by screenplay writer Howard B. Kreitsek, who also served as producer. The film starred James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents. Plot In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. When Rabbit moves in with Rut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in ''The New Yorker'' starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for ''The New York Review of Books''. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels ''Rabbit, Run''; ''Rabbit Redux''; ''Rabbit Is Rich''; ''Rabbit at Rest''; and the novella ''Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Rabbit Angstrom, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and ''Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
