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Critic's Choice (1963 Film)
''Critic's Choice'' is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin, the movie stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and includes Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the cast. This is the last of four films that Hope and Ball made together. Plot Parker Ballantine is a theatrical critic, busily praising or disparaging the shows of Broadway. His wife Angela is feeling useless and restless, so she writes a play about her mother and sisters. Angela does not believe Parker should review her work, since he will look prejudiced if he does so favorably and it will hurt her feelings if he knocks it. Parker has read it and is not impressed. A major producer, however, decides to back it. Handsome Dion Kapakos directs the play and tries to strike up a romantic interest in the playwright. Angela continues to resist, but she's getting more fed up with Parker's negativity by the hour. Before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Weis
Don Weis (May 13, 1922 – July 26, 2000) was an American film and television director. Biography Weis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Emma (née Wiener; 1889–1971) and Meyer Weis (1886-1942). He graduated from the University of Southern California where he studied film. During World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at MGM directing such films as ''Bannerline'' (1951), ''Just This Once'' (1952), ''You for Me'' (1952) and ''The Affairs of Dobie Gillis'' (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Ironside (TV series), Ironside'', ''It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series), It Takes a Thief'', ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), Twilight Zone'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955), ''Fireside Theatre, The Jane Wyman Show'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Happy Days'', ''Starsky and Hutch'', ''CHiPs'', ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series), Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films '' To Catch a Thief'' (1955) and ''North by Northwest'' (1959). Early life Jessie Royce Landis was born Jessie Medbury in Chicago, Illinois, to Paul, an orchestra musician, and Ella Medbury. Her acting surname "Landis" derives from her first husband, although she was married twice more. A scholarship that Landis received when she was 14 enabled her to attend the Hinshaw Dramatic School, which led to her acting two years later with the Evanston Stock Company. Career Landis was a stage actress for much of her career. When her first husband's family encountered financial problems, she joined the North Shore Players as leading lady and director. In 1924, she left those dual roles to go on tour with ''The Highwayman.'' Her Broadway career began with ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 1963
A list of American films released in 1963. ''Cleopatra'' - the highest-grossing film of 1963. __TOC__ A-C D-G H-M N-S T-Z See also * 1964 in the United States External links 1963 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1963 1963 Films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ... Lists of 1963 films by country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Smith (actor)
Harold John Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American actor. He is credited in over 300 film and television productions, and was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's '' The Andy Griffith Show'' and for voicing Owl and Winnie the Pooh (replacing Sterling Holloway) in the first four original '' Winnie the Pooh'' shorts (the first three of which were combined into the feature film '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'') and later '' Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons'', '' Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore'' and in the television series, ''Welcome to Pooh Corner'' and '' The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', and Goofy from 1967 to 1983. He also did a cameo in '' The Apartment'' as a drunken Santa Claus, and provided the voice of Goliath in the TV series '' Davey and Goliath'' from 1961 to 1965. Early life Harold John Smith was born on August 24, 1916, in Petoskey, Michigan to Jay D. Smith and Emma Smith (nee Ploof). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Williams
Rhoda Elaine Williams (July 19, 1930 – March 8, 2006) was an American actress who voiced Drizella Tremaine in Walt Disney's ''Cinderella''. Early life and education Rhoda Williams was born in Denver, Colorado. She learned to read at age three, and performing on radio came naturally to her. She soon had her own local weekly show on KMPC's, ''We Who Are Young.'' Williams graduated from Hollywood High School when she was 14, following which she earned a degree in theatre arts at the University of California. Early radio 1937–1957 In 1949, Williams began a five-year stint as Robert Young's oldest daughter, Betty, on NBC Radio's ''Father Knows Best''. Motion pictures During this period, she also appeared in movies such as ''National Velvet'', ''Meet John Doe'', and '' That Hagen Girl''. In Walt Disney's ''Cinderella'', she was the voice for the nasty stepsister, Drizella. She attended Hollywood High School and earned a B.A. degree from UCLA when she was 18. Early life and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mower
Jack Mower (September 5, 1890 – January 6, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 520 films between 1914 and 1965. He was born in Honolulu and died in Hollywood. After studying at Punahou College, in Honolulu, Mower moved to the mainland, and performed in vaudeville and in musical comedies on stage. His work on screen included serials and silent films. Mower was a leading man in silent films, but played bit parts after sound films came into vogue. He was in Goodwill Pictures films. Selected filmography ;1920s * '' The Beautiful Gambler'' (1921) * '' The Rowdy'' (1921) * '' Short Skirts'' (1921) * '' Silent Years'' (1921) * '' Saturday Night'' (1922) * ''Manslaughter'' (1922) * '' When Husbands Deceive'' (1922) * '' Pure Grit'' (1923) * '' The Last Hour'' (1923) * '' The Shock'' (1923) * ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1927) ;1930s * ''Bad Company'' (1931) (uncredited) * '' The Phantom Express'' (1932) (uncredited) * '' The Pride of the Legion'' (1932) * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soupy Sales
Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio-television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television series, ''Lunch with Soupy Sales'' (later titled ''The Soupy Sales Show'') (1953–1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving Pieing, a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of ''What's My Line?'' and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, he hosted his own radio show on WNBC (AM), WNBC in New York City. Early life Milton Supman was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, to Irving Supman and Sadie Berman Supman. His father, a Jewish dry goods merchant, emigrated from Hungary in 1894. His was the only Jewish family in town; Sales joked that local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets used for their robes from his fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Losby
Donald A. Losby, Jr (born May 26, 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, known primarily for his many character roles in popular television during the 1950s and 1960s in programs such as ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Bonanza'', ''Rawhide'', ''Route 66'', '' The Fugitive'', ''Ben Casey'', ''Lassie'', ''My Three Sons'', ''Gunsmoke'' (1966 “The Whispering Tree), ''Daniel Boone'', '' Blue Light'', ''Lost in Space'' ( "Return from Outer Space"), and '' The Young Rebels'', as well as a small number of movies, typically playing the role of someone's son or brother, as in The Mating Game (film) with Debbie Reynolds. Filmography Trivia * In 1963, he co-starred in an unsold pilot for a proposed comedy series called ''Grand Slam'', about a sports columnist (played by Murray Hamilton) who can't help getting involved with other people's problems. * His last acting role was in support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Deacon (actor)
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', and ''The Jack Benny Program,'' along with minor roles in films such as '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Birds'' (1963). Career Deacon often portrayed pompous, prissy, and/or imperious figures in film and television. He made appearances on ''The Jack Benny Program'' as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's ''Happy'' as a hotel manager. He made a brief appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's film '' The Birds'' (1963). He played a larger role in '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of the film after its original previews. In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh’s ''The Spirit of St. Louis'', Deacon portrayed the chairm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Shawlee
Joan Shawlee ( Fulton; March 5, 1926 – March 22, 1987) was an American film and television actress. She is known for her recurring role as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell in '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'', a career-defining turn in Billy Wilder's comedy ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959) playing Sweet Sue, the abrasive martinet in charge of Marilyn Monroe's all-girl jazz band, and as the flamboyant Madame Pompey in the 1957 '' Maverick'' episode " Stampede" with James Garner. She was sometimes credited under her birth name. Early years Shawlee was born in Forest Hills, New York to Theodore Cuyler Fulton, an automobile salesman, and Esther L. (Ring) Fulton, and she moved with her parents and two brothers, Theodore Cuyler Fulton Jr. and Albert Fulton, to Vancouver, British Columbia when she was five years old. Career Dancing and modeling Shawlee studied ballet under Ernest Belcher. At the age of fourteen, she began to work as a model for the John Robert Powers agency in New York, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gallison
Joseph Gallison is an American actor who worked on television soap operas for twenty-seven years. He is probably best known for his role as Dr. Neil Curtis on ''Days of Our Lives'' (1974-1991). Early years Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Gallison attended the United States Military Academy until an injury to his back led to his discharge from the Army. He then transferred to Northeastern University. Career Gallison is well known for playing the character of William (Bill) Matthews, Jr., on '' Another World'' (1964-1969). Other soap opera roles have included Tom Edwards on ''One Life to Live'' (1969-1971) and Steven Cord on ''Return to Peyton Place'' (1972-1974). Gallison is also heard in the ''You're Under Arrest'' series, dubbing the voice of Inspector Tokuno. On May 19, 1961, Gallison, under the name Evan McCord, appeared as Billy Boy Baines in the episode "Caper in E Flat" of the ABC-Warner Brothers private detective series, ''77 Sunset Strip''. On April 22, 1962, Galli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
