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Hilary Thompson
Hilary Thompson (b. 2 March 1949, Birmingham, Michigan), credited almost equally (23 of 49 credits) as Hilarie Thompson, is an American actress, known primarily for her character roles in popular television throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Early years Thompson's performance in her high school's production of ''My Fair Lady'' when a talent scout was present led to her first film contract. Career In 1966, Thompson made her television debut in a Kodak commercial aired during the Academy Awards. On television, Thompson portrayed Lynn on ''Chico and the Man'' Lizabeth Barrett on ''The Manhunter'', Lieutenant Betty Wheeler on ''Operation Petticoat'', Sharon St. Clair on ''Number 96'', Elizabeth Coates on '' The Young Rebels'', and Ginger on ''Washingtoon''. She also appeared on programs such as ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''Bewitched'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Flying Nun'', ''Room 222'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''The Brady Bunch'', ''Barnaby Jones'', ''Harry O'', ''Starsky and Hutch'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham, Michigan
Birmingham is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Detroit located along the Woodward Corridor (M-1 (Michigan highway), M-1). As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 20,103. History The area comprising what is now the city of Birmingham was part of land ceded by Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes to the United States government by the 1807 Treaty of Detroit. However, settlement was delayed, first by the War of 1812. Afterward the Surveyor-General of the United States, Edward Tiffin, made an unfavorable report regarding the placement of Military Tract of 1812, Military Bounty Lands for veterans of the War of 1812. Tiffin's report claimed that, because of marsh, in this area "There would not be an acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand that would, in any case, admit cultivation." In 1818, Territorial Governor Lewis Cass led a group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starsky And Hutch
''Starsky & Hutch'' is an American action television series, which consisted of a 72-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a '' Movie of the Week'' entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn (inspired by the success of the then recent movie '' Busting''), produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and starred Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the title roles, Starsky and Hutch. It was broadcast from April 1975 (pilot movie) to August 1979 on the ABC network. ''Starsky & Hutch'' was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers Corporation and later on 20th Television in Canada and some other parts of the world. Sony Pictures Television is now the worldwide distributor for the series. The series later inspired a video game and a feature film. Cast The series' protagonists were two Southern California police detectives: Sergeant David Michael Starsky ( Paul Michael Glaser) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Michigan
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nighthawks (1981 Film)
''Nighthawks'' is a 1981 American action thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth in his solo directorial debut, from a screenplay by David Shaber, based on a story by Shaber and Paul Sylbert. It stars Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams, with Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport, and Rutger Hauer in his American film debut. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson. The film follows a pair of international terrorists who come to New York City and the police detectives, who as part of a newly formed antiterrorism squad, are asked to identify and neutralize them. ''Nighthawks'' was noted for production problems, including the firing of original director Gary Nelson, and extensive re-editing by star Stallone. It was released by Universal Pictures on April 10, 1981, and received generally positive reviews. It was a financial success, grossing $19.9 million from $5 million production budget. Plot Three armed assailants attack a woman who turns out to be N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fury (1978 Film)
''The Fury'' is a 1978 American supernatural horror thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, and Andrew Stevens. The screenplay by John Farris was based on his 1976 novel of the same name. Produced by Frank Yablans and released by 20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio, film production and Film distributor, distribution company owned by the Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the ... on March 10, 1978, the film was both critically and commercially successful, grossing $24 million from a $7.5 million budget. film criticism, Film critic Pauline Kael highly lauded the music, composed and conducted by John Williams, calling it "as apt and delicately varied a score as any horror movie has ever had". Plot In Israel, ex-government agent Peter Sandza and his psychic son Robin me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hex (1973 Film)
''Hex'' is a 1973 American Western supernatural horror film directed by Leo Garen and starring Keith Carradine, Cristina Raines, Hilarie Thompson, Dan Haggerty, Gary Busey, and Scott Glenn. Set in 1919, its plot follows a wayward band of motorcyclists who seek shelter at a rural Nebraska farm inhabited by Native American sisters Acacia and Oriole. When one of the motorcyclists, Gibson "Giblets" Meredith, tries to rape Acacia, Oriole places a curse on them, resulting in their subsequent deaths. Blending supernatural horror with elements of classic Westerns and the contemporary biker film, ''Hex'' was written by Garen and Stephen Katz, based on a story by Vernon Zimmerman and Doran Cannon. The film was shot on location at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota during the fall of 1971, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was shelved for nearly two years while the studio re-cut it into a more straightforward occult-themed horror film. The film was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getting Straight
''Getting Straight'' is a 1970 American satirical and romantic comedy-drama motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures. The story centers upon student politics, protest, and relationships during the height of the counterculture era at a US university amid the turbulent times around the late 1960s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor. ''Getting Straight'' was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were '' Medium Cool'' (1969), '' R. P. M.'' (1970), and '' The Strawberry Statement'' (1970). Plot Harry Bail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
''If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' is a 1969 American romantic comedy film made by Wolper Pictures and released by United Artists and made in DeLuxe Color. Directed by Mel Stuart, the movie was filmed on location throughout Europe, and featured cameo appearances. The film stars Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron, Michael Constantine, Norman Fell, Peggy Cass, Marty Ingels, Pamela Britton, and Reva Rose. Plot Charlie Cartwright, an amorous English tour guide, takes groups of Americans on whirlwind nine-countries-in-18-days sightseeing tours of Europe. Having overslept with his newest conquest, he is late meeting tour #225, finding a resentful group eager to start. Samantha Perkins, one of those tourists, is on vacation to contemplate whether to marry her fiancé, George. In London, Charlie begins a campaign to charm and seduce the gorgeous Samantha, who considers him frivolous and conniving, reluctant to become ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Model Shop (film)
''Model Shop'' is a 1969 romantic drama film written, directed and produced by Jacques Demy, starring Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood and Alexandra Hay, and featuring a guest appearance by Spirit (band), Spirit who recorded the Model Shop (album), accompanying soundtrack. Demy made ''Model Shop'', which was his first English-language film, following the international success of his film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964). Aimée reprises the title role from Demy's 1961 French-language film ''Lola (1961 film), Lola''. ''Model Shop'' makes explicit the fact that Demy's films take place in the same narrative universe. It weaves together the plots of ''Lola'', ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' and ''Bay of Angels'' (1963). Plot In Los Angeles, 26-year-old architect George Matthews is floundering. He is unemployed and in debt, his live-in girlfriend, aspiring actress Gloria, is tired of him, and his car is about to be repossessed. Going round to friends to scrounge $100 to stave off the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows'' is a 1968 American comedy film directed by James Neilson and starring Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens and Binnie Barnes. Written by Blanche Hanalis, the film is based on a story by Jane Trahey about an orthodox mother superior who is challenged by a progressive younger nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States. The film is a sequel to '' The Trouble with Angels'' (1966). Russell, Barnes, Mary Wickes and Dolores Sutton all reprise their roles as nuns from the original film. Plot The conservative Mother Superior and the glamorous, progressive young Sister George shepherd a busload of Catholic high-school girls from Pennsylvania to an interfaith youth rally in California. As they debate expressions of faith and the role of the church during the tumultuous 1960s, they must also contend with the various antics of two rebellious, troublemaking students, Rosabelle and Marvel Anne. During their lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Sweet It Is!
''How Sweet It Is!'' is a 1968 comedy film starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds, with a supporting cast including Terry-Thomas and Paul Lynde. Garner plays a photographer who accompanies his wife and teenage son on an assignment in Paris, with both husband and wife struggling to stay faithful under extreme temptation. The film was written by producers Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson (adapting Muriel Resnik's novel ''The Girl in the Turqoise Bikini'') and directed by Jerry Paris. Jimmy Webb wrote the title song, and Patrick Williams scored the sound track. Plot Teenager David Henderson wants to tag along with his girlfriend Gloria and a group of American students touring France. His mother Jenny hates the idea until she manages to get her professional photographer husband Grif to document the group's travels for his company. Jenny books passage for them all on an ocean liner, and a stay at a Riviera hotel, from Gilbert, a dishonest, shyster travel agent. On the ship, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryjane (film)
''Maryjane'' is a 1968 feature film starring Fabian as a high school art teacher who is framed for drug possession. Plot A car driven by a driver intoxicated by marijuana plunges off a cliff, killing the driver and injuring a female passenger. It turns out marijuana use is rife at a small town high school, led by the clique of Jordan Bates. Art teacher Phil Blake tries to persuade student Jerry Blackburn not to smoke. Jerry borrows Phil's car and Jordan leaves some marijuana in it. Phil gets arrested for possession of marijuana. Cast * Fabian as Phil Blake *Diane McBain as Ellie Holden * Michael Margotta as Jerry Blackburn *Kevin Coughlin as Jordan Bates * Patty McCormack as Susan Hoffman Production According to Maury Dexter "there was nothing salacious or offensive about" the film "but it did have some provocative scenes that showed the results of overindulging and the risks taken when someone needs 'a fix.'" The movie was shot almost entirely in the Hollywood area. The Dohe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
