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Clambake (film)
''Clambake'' is a 1967 American beach party musical film directed by Arthur H. Nadel and starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Bill Bixby, Gary Merrill and James Gregory. Written for the screen by Arthur Browne Jr., the film is about the heir to an oil fortune who trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money. ''Clambake'' was the last of Presley's four films for United Artists. The movie reached number 15 on the national weekly box-office charts. Plot Scott Hayward (Presley) rebels against the plans and expectations of his father, extremely rich oil tycoon Duster Hayward (Gregory). He drives to Florida in his red 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Racer to find himself. When Scott stops for gas and refreshments, he encounters Tom Wilson (Hutchins), who is on his way to take a job as a water skiing instructor at a Miami hotel. A chance remark by Tom gives Scott the idea to switch identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur H
Arthur Higelin (born 27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H (), is a French singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known in France for his live performances—four of his albums were recorded live. Life and career He is the son of the French singer Jacques Higelin and Nicole Courtois, and half brother of singers Izïa Higelin and stage and film actor, theatre director and music video director Kên Higelin. After traveling in the West Indies, he studied music in Boston before returning to Paris and developing his eclectic but highly personal musical style, drawing on such influences as Thelonious Monk, Serge Gainsbourg, the Sex Pistols, jazz, blues, Middle Eastern music and the tango. He first performed in 1988 in clubs in Paris, as leader of a trio with bassist Brad Scott and drummer Paul Jothy. His first album, ''Arthur H'' (1990), combined rhythmic experimentation and '' bal-musette'' elements with a vocal style which has been compared to Tom Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corvette Stingray (concept Car)
The Corvette Stingray Racer is a Sports car racing, sports racing car and concept car that debuted in 1959. The car was developed in the styling studios at General Motors (GM) at the behest of Bill Mitchell (automobile designer), Bill Mitchell, GM Vice President of styling. The design was based on a sketch by designer Pete Brock, and was further developed by Larry Shinoda. The car strongly influenced the styling of the second generation Chevrolet Corvette (C2), (C2) Corvette Sting Ray. History Italian influence In 1957 Mitchell attended the Turin Auto Show in Italy. While there he was impressed by a series of automobiles whose body shapes shared a strong horizontal bodyline encircling the car, and four bulges or "blips" on the upper body, one above each wheel. Among these cars was the Abarth 750 Streamliner, as well as other Abarths, and cars with bodies by Felice Mario Boano, Boano and Automobili Stanguellini, Stanguellini. Also influential was the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, alread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Majors
Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23, 1939) is an American actor. He portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley on the American television Western series '' The Big Valley'' (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin on the American television science-fiction action series '' The Six Million Dollar Man'' (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers on the American television action series '' The Fall Guy'' (1981–1986). Early life Majors was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His parents, Carl and Alice Yeary, were both killed in separate accidents. (His father died in a work accident five months prior to his birth, and his mother was killed in a car accident when he was almost seventeen months old.) At the age of two, Majors was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and he moved with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky. He participated in track and football at Middlesboro High School. He graduated in 1957, and played football at Indiana University in 1957–195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during its annual performance season at the Civic Opera House, including its annual presentation of ''The Nutcracker''. Founded in 1956 by dance pioneers Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, the company has earned a reputation for boundary-breaking performances, including its 1987 presentation of Vaslav Nijinsky's ''The Rite of Spring'', which reconstructed the original choreography from the 1913 premiere that was thought to be lost. Many choreographers have worked with the Joffrey, including Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and George Balanchine. History From its foundation in 1956 through the mid-1960s, Joffrey's and Arpino's dance company initially toured the United States and sometimes other parts of the world (for example: the Soviet Union in 1963). The dance company gained its first permanent residency in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor and film director. He appeared as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series ''L.A. Law'',Biography from a USA Network website for ''Psych'' as Dr. Alan Feinstone in ''The Dentist'', as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series ''Psych'', and as Roger Dorn in the films ''Major League (film), Major League'', ''Major League II'', and ''Major League: Back to the Minors''. He also appeared regularly on ''The Resident (TV series), The Resident'', ''The Curse (American TV series), The Curse'', ''General Hospital'', and ''Cuts (TV series), Cuts'', and has had intermittent appearances on ''The Young and the Restless''. Early life Bernsen was born in North Hollywood, Los An ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Garr
Terry Ann Garr (December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024), known as Teri Garr, was an American actress. Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, she often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Awards, Academy Award and a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film Award for her performance in ''Tootsie'' (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach. Garr was raised primarily in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hodge (guitarist)
Charles Franklin Hodge (December 14, 1934 – March 3, 2006), better known as Charlie Hodge, was an American singer, vocal coach and musician who was a confidant and best friend of Elvis Presley, and lived at Graceland. Biography Early music career Born in Decatur, Alabama, Hodge began his musical career at age 17 in a gospel quartet, The Path Finders, with Bill Gaither. At 5'3", the tenor singer used an empty Coke crate to stand on as a comedy routine while singing with the quartet. Hodge then joined The Foggy River Boys, and first met Presley in 1955 when Presley came backstage after the group performed in Memphis, Tennessee while visiting to promote ABC-TV's '' Ozark Jubilee''. Before Presley became a national success he commented to Hodge that he listened to him and his group on the radio. At that time The Foggy River Boys were the number one gospel quartet in the country. As a part of ''Ozark Jubilee'', Hodge was also on network television before Presley. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marj Dusay
Marjorie Ellen Mahoney Dusay (; née Mahoney; February 20, 1936 – January 28, 2020) was an American actress known for her roles on American soap operas. She was especially known for her role as Alexandra Spaulding on ''Guiding Light'', a role she played on and off from 1993 through the show's 2009 cancellation, as well as Jean Faircloth, the wife of Douglas MacArthur, in the 1977 movie '' MacArthur''. Career In 1967, Kansas native Dusay was a member of the Session, an improvisational comedy group in Los Angeles, formed by Rob Reiner. One member of the Session was Richard Dreyfuss. Dusay started her career with a small role as a waitress alongside Elvis Presley in the film '' Clambake'' in 1967. She appeared on December 21, 1967, in an episode of television's '' Cimarron Strip''. Dusay also appeared in '' Sweet November'' (1968). Dusay's early career focused on appearances in episodic television programs, including ''Get Smart''; ''The Wild Wild West''; ''Bonanza''; ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue England
Sue England (July 17, 1928 – March 19, 2018) was an American actress. Early years England won beauty titles as a youngster -- "Miss Tulsa" when she was 6 years old and "Oklahoma's Sweetheart" when she was older. Career England's professional acting career began in 1945, when she played Merle Oberon's daughter Susette Touzac in ''This Love of Ours''. Her work in the film was described by a newspaper columnist as "one of the season's best fledgling performances". Other notable films she appeared in include '' Kidnapped'', ''The Devil on Wheels'' and '' City Across the River''. England later turned to television work and acted in shows such as ''Lost in Space'', ''The Cisco Kid'', ''Father Knows Best'' and as a Native American pregnant woman on ''Daniel Boone''. Sue England made five appearances on ''Perry Mason'' and also appeared in an episode of the TV series ''The Lone Ranger'', season 1 Season One may refer to: Albums * ''Season One'' (Suburban Legends album), 2004 * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique Pettyjohn
Angelique Pettyjohn (born Dorothy Lee Perrins; March 11, 1943 – February 14, 1992) was an American actress and burlesque queen. She appeared as the drill thrall Shahna in the '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion". Acting career Pettyjohn was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her first credited film appearances were in 1967 under the name Angelique. They include ''The Touch of Her Flesh'' and ''The Love Rebellion''. Her big break came that same year in the Elvis Presley film '' Clambake''. Pettyjohn was one of the go-go dancers in the opening scene of the comedy film ''The Odd Couple'' (1968), starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and she also tested for the role of Nova in ''Planet of the Apes'' the same year (Linda Harrison accepted the role). In 1968, Pettyjohn appeared in the ''Star Trek'' episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" as Shahna, the thrall trainer of Captain James T. Kirk. She also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Riddle
Sam Riddle (December 12, 1937 – September 27, 2021) was an American television host, producer, and disc jockey. He gained fame as one of the original " Boss Radio" DJs on KHJ in Los Angeles. Riddle hosted the popular teen music programs ''9th Street West'' and ''Hollywood a Go Go'' in the 1960s. He went on to produce various television shows, including the talent competition series ''Star Search''. Life and career Samuel Earl Riddle was born in Fort Worth, Texas on December 12, 1937. He served in the Air Force Reserves during the Vietnam War. Riddle began his radio career at KCLE in Cleburne, Texas. While he was a student at Texas Technological College, he had a television show on KDUB in Lubbock, Texas. Riddle later worked as a disc jockey in Arizona, and KDEO in San Diego before he joined the staff at KRLA in Los Angeles in 1960. He eventually moved to KFWB and became one of the popular Boss Jocks on the influential " Boss Radio" on KHJ. In 1964, Riddle began hosting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Peary
Harold "Hal" Peary (born Harrold José Pereira de Faria; July 25, 1908 – March 30, 1985) was an American actor, comedian and singer in radio, films, television, and animation. His most memorable role is as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, which began as a supporting character on radio's "''Fibber McGee and Molly"'' in 1938. Early life Born as José Pereira de Faria in San Leandro, California, to Portuguese parents, Harold Peary (pronounced ''Perry'') began working in local radio as early as 1923, according to his own memory. He had his own show as a singer, "''The Spanish Serenader"'', in San Francisco. While in San Francisco, he and Eddie Firestone had several parts in '' Wheatenaville '', a program broadcast on NBC's Pacific network beginning September 26, 1932. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1935. Gildersleeve In Chicago, he became a regular on ''Fibber McGee and Molly'', where he originated the colorful and arrogant Gildersleeve character as a McGee neighbor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
