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Fifi Oscard
Fifi Oscard (born Fernande Oscard"Fifi Oscard, Literary and talent agent" ''Variety''. November 15, 2005 June 19, 1920Attallah, Naim (1987). Women '. London: Quartet Books. p. 1125. ."United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K97-P4XB : Thu Feb 06 18:38:06 UTC 2025), Entry for Fernandez Steinmetz and Maurice N Oscard. – November 12, 2005) was an American |
Rockaway Beach, New York
Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west. It is named for the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Streets on the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood, with 13,000 residents , is also known as the "Irish Riviera" because of its large Irish American population. Rockaway Beach saw major development after WWII as part of a city-wide project to alleviate a housing shortage. However, building cheap dense buildings close to the salty ocean resulted in Rockaway turning into an outpost for the city's neediest populations. History Early development What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different hamlets, Holland and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. Holland had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (née Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress. She was known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby". Kitt began her career in 1942 and appeared in the 1945 original Broadway theatre production of the musical ''Carib Song''. In the early 1950s, Kitt had six US Top 30 entries, including "Uska Dara" (1953) and "I Want to Be Evil" (1953). Her other recordings include the UK Top 10 song "Under the Bridges of Paris" (1954), "Just an Old Fashioned Girl" (1956) and "Where Is My Man" (1983). Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". Kitt starred as Catwoman in the third and final season of the television series ''Batman (TV series), Batman'' in 1967. In 1968, Kitt's career in the U.S. deteriorated after she made Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, anti-Vietnam War statements at a White House lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayland Flowers
Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. (November 26, 1939 – October 11, 1988) was an American actor, comedian and puppeteer. Flowers was best known for the comedy act he created with his puppet Madame. His performances as "Wayland Flowers and Madame" were a major national success on stage and on screen in the 1970s and 1980s. Flowers is frequently cited as a ventriloquist despite the fact that he made no effort to conceal that he was voicing his characters. He instead preferred to be called an " illusionist," because onlookers tended to focus their attention on his animated puppets, who seemed to do all the talking. Early life Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. was born November 26, 1939, in Dawson, Georgia, the second of three children. His father soon shipped off to World War II and was killed, leaving him to be raised in a devoutly religious all-female household, save for his younger brother. There was a neighborhood girl with whom he liked to play with dolls; however, this was social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Tsoutsouvas
Sam Tsoutsouvas is an American veteran actor and lyricist with experience in the stage, television and films. He appeared in 1967 and 1968 at The Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah, before attending the Juilliard Drama School in Lincoln Center, New York City. In the 1968 season he played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.Utah Shakespearean Festival Program, Seventh Annual Season, July 15 - August 3, 1968 Broadway plays * '' Scapin'' (1973), ''Lyrics'' * '' Three Sisters'' (1973–1974), as Solyony * ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1973–1974), as Lockit * ''Measure for Measure'' (1973–1974), as Lucio * '' Three Sisters'' (1975), as Solyony/Andrei Prozorov * ''The Time of Your Life'' (1975), as Willie/Blick * ''Edward II'' (1975), as Young Mortimer * ''By Jeeves'' (2001), as Sir Watkyn Bassett * ''Our Country's Good'' (1991), as Captain David Collins/Robert Sideway Regional Theatre * '' Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ligon
Thomas Ligon (born September 10, 1940) is an American actor of Cajun ancestry. He appeared in the films '' Paint Your Wagon'', '' Jump'', and '' Bang the Drum Slowly'' (in which he also sang the title song) as well as the television series ''The Young and the Restless'', and '' Oz''. Life and career Mentored by folksinger and actor Gordon Heath in Paris, beginning in the mid 1950s, Ligon then attended St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.), where he suffered a broken leg while playing football, and, sans sports, his interests turned solidly toward theater. At Yale, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and graduated as an English major (1962), he was discovered by Tennessee Williams, who saw his performance as Kilroy in Williams' play, '' Camino Real'' at the Yale Dramatic Association. Ligon became one of the most sought after young actors in New York in the 1960s. Ligon has appeared on many prominent regional stages in the U.S., notably the Arena Stage where he played th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Schreiber
Terry Schreiber (born March 7, 1937) is an American theater director, acting teacher, and founder of the T. Schreiber Studio, in New York. Schreiber was born in Winona, Minnesota. He has directed theatre, principally in New York, since 1976, at such venues as the Longacre Theatre, the Circle Repertory Theatre, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre, as well as in Japan, regional repertory theatre, and at the Terry Schreiber Studio. Career Schreiber directed the Tony Award-winning play '' K2''; '' Devour the Snow''; '' The Trip Back Down'', starring John Cullum; and Andorra Featured in Eva Mekler's ''The New Generation of Acting Teachers'', Terry Schreiber has been teaching and directing for over 46 years. On Broadway he directed the Tony-nominated play ''K2'', ''The Trip Back Down'' starring John Cullum, and ''Devour the Snow''. Off-Broadway his directing credits include ''Desire Under the Elms'' at The Roundabout Theatre with Kathy Baker and Feedlot at Circle Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Garrison (playwright)
Gary Wayne Garrison (born May 3, 1956) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and educator who has served as Executive Director of Creative Affairs for the Dramatists Guild of America, New York, from 2007 to 2016. He is the former Artistic Director and Division Head of Playwriting for the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, where he still serves on the adjunct faculty teaching graduate students. Education Garrison graduated from Lutcher Stark High School in Orange, Texas in 1974. He then studied theatre (acting) at Lamar University, graduating in 1978. He went on to receive an MA in Theatre Arts from the University of North Texas, 1980, and a Ph.D. in Playwriting and Directing in 1986 from the University of Michigan. Career After graduate school, Garrison began his work at NYU in 1986. In 1989 he began a long association with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, serving first as Regional Chair of Playwriting, then moving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Gore (writer)
Christopher "Chris" Gore (1944–1988) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and lyricist. Gore is best known for writing the screenplay for the 1980 musical film ''Fame'', for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Gore was born on August 10, 1944, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Shortly after graduating from Northwestern University, Gore began writing plays and musicals. One of his early works, ''Mary'', was a musical about Mary, Queen of Scots that was produced in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1967. His first Broadway show, ''Via Galactica'', which he wrote with Judith Ross and Galt MacDermot, premiered in 1972. In 1977, he also wrote the book and lyrics for a musical about the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Although his obituary in ''The New York Times'' (citing his mother) stated that Gore died of cancer, subsequent reports now accurately state that he died of AIDS on May 18, 1988 at age 43 in Santa Monica, California Santa Monica ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman (born April 18, 1947) is an American television actress, director, and producer. She is most known for her work as Gwen Frame on '' Another World'', on ''All My Children'' as the original Opal Sue Gardner, as Rebecca Whitmore on '' Generations'', and on the sitcom ''Mama's Family'' as Naomi Harper. Life and career Lyman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Violet E. (née Brightwell) and Hector H. Lyman, who was a stockbroker. She is Protestant. Jill Larson, who succeeded Lyman in the role of Opal on ''All My Children'', and she attended the same high school. She debuted on her first soap opera, '' A World Apart'', as flower child Julie Stark in 1971. Several years later, Dorothy appeared as Elly Jo Jamison, an evil relation of wealthy Orin Hillyer's, (1972-1973) on ''The Edge of Night'', and as architect Gwen Parrish Frame (1976–1980, 1989) on '' Another World''. Her most notable soap opera role, though, was on ''All My Children'' as Opal Sue Gardner (1981-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Knight
Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka; December 7, 1923August 26, 1986) was an American actor known for playing the comedic roles of Ted Baxter in ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', Henry Rush in '' Too Close for Comfort'' and Judge Elihu Smails in '' Caddyshack''. Early life Knight was born in the Terryville section of Plymouth in Litchfield County, Connecticut to Polish-American parents Sophia (née Kavaleski) and Charles Walter Konopka, a bartender. He withdrew from high school to enlist in the United States Army during World War II and was a member of Company A, 296th Combat Engineer Battalion, earning five campaign stars while serving in the European Theater of Operations. Career Early roles During the postwar years, Knight studied acting in Hartford, Connecticut. He became proficient with puppets and ventriloquism, which led to steady work as a television children's show host at WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island from 1950 to 1955. In 1955, he left Providen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Cass
Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass (May 21, 1924 – March 8, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer. As an actress, Cass is best known for originating the role of Agnes Gooch in the 1956 stage and 1958 film versions of '' Auntie Mame'', for which she won a Tony Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As a television personality, Cass is best known as one of the resident panelists on ''To Tell the Truth'' from 1962 to 1968 when hosted by Bud Collyer, 1969 to 1978 when hosted by Garry Moore and his successors Bill Cullen and Joe Garagiola, and 1990 when hosted by Gordon Elliott. Early life Peggy Cass received acting training at HB Studio in New York City and eventually landed the lead role of Billie Dawn in a traveling production of '' Born Yesterday''. Stage and film Cass made her Broadway debut in 1949 with the play ''Touch and Go''. She portrayed Agnes Gooch in '' Auntie Mame'' on Broadway and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps as ''TIME'') is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published Weekly newspaper, weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. History 20th century ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
