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If It's A Rose
''If It's a Rose'' is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television comedy play, which aired in 1958 on ABC. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. Duration was 60 minutes, in black-and-white. Archival status of the program is unknown. Annette Andre was a relatively unknown 18 year old. A version had been performed on British TV in 1954. Plot Set in Italy. Over the course of one day, Mario is courting Anna. Cast *Annette Andre as Anna *Don Pascoe as Mario * Ethel Lang as the maid Production It was recorded live in Sydney. It was an early television performance from Annette Andre who later recalled: Even though I had been performing on stage from a very young age... I still had to overcome the exquisite torture of stage fright when I did my first TV drama. For some reason, my radio work was anxiety-free, perhaps because my ‘audience’ was only the other actors grouped around the microphone. My If It’s a Rose co-star was as nervous as I was and i ...
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Dario Niccodemi
Dario Niccodemi ( Livorno, Italy, 27 January 1874 – Rome, Italy, 24 September 1934) was a novelist and a playwright who was born in Italy. Life and career He spent his youth in Buenos Aires; he met the French actress ''Rejane'' in 1900, became her secretary and translated and adapted for her several Italian works. In this way, he learned techniques which he used later on, beginning with ''L'aigrette'' (comedy in three acts, 1912). His comedies represent the bourgeois drama in an ironic and sentimental way, in which his characters are modelled on the society of the beginning of the century. He founded a theater company in 1921, wrote novels (''Il romanzo di scampolo'') and two opera librettos, a ''scampolo'' with music by Camussi, and another, ''La ghibellina'', with music by Bianchi. He has written several plays and screenplays, including ''Scampolo'' (film, 1928)'', La nemica'', '' L'alba, il giorno, la notte'', ''La maestrina'' (film, 1942). About ''La nemica'' he said: " ...
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Robert Rietti
Robert Rietti, (born Lucio Rietti; 8 February 1923 – 3 April 2015), was an actor, and Oscar-nominated director of Anglo-Italian descent. With over 200 credits to his name, he had a highly prolific career in the American, British and Italian entertainment industries. He was particularly prominent in post-production dubbing both foreign and domestic, often overseeing the English-language dubbing of foreign actors' dialogue. He is known for his dubbing work in the ''James Bond'' series, ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''Once Upon a Time in America'', and ''The Guns of Navarone''. He is often credited under the variant name spelling Robert Rietty. Early life Born in 1923, Rietti was the younger of two sons of Italian-Jewish actor Victor Rietti and Rachel Rosenay. In 1932, at the age of nine, he joined his father's company ''Teatro Italiano'', making his stage debut in ''Mysterious Currents''. His father (under whom Ida Lupino and June Duprez had studied acting) developed his son ...
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Raymond Menmuir
Raymond Edward Menmuir (10 September 1930 – 26 March 2016) was a British-Australian director and producer. His career included producing 44 episodes of ''The Professionals'' and directing 12 episodes of ''Upstairs, Downstairs''. He also produced an Australian version of ''The Professionals'' called '' Special Squad'' for the Ten Network in 1984. Early life Menmuir was born in Perth, Western Australia, as the eldest of four children to Edward Menmuir and his wife Dorothy (née Williams). His father ensured Menmuir had a good education, at Wesley College. Work His first employment was as a reporter at the Perth Daily News, but he then transferred to the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a radio producer. He was deeply impressed by European culture, by seeing various films at the 1953 Festival of the Arts in Perth, and then took artistic inspiration from various films including Marcel Pagnol's ''Cesar'', Vittorio de Sica's '' Bicycle Thieves'', and Mikhail Kalatozov's ''T ...
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ABC1
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The network began operating on 5 November 1956 as the ABC National Television Service, starting in Sydney, followed by Melbourne, with other stations being established in state capitals and regional areas in the following years. In the 1960s and 1970s, the network was also referred to as ABC National Television, or ABC Television. Until the introduction of digital television in 2001, the network was the only domestic television service broadcast by the ABC. On 8 February 2008, the channel was renamed ABC1, before being rebranded as ABC TV on 20 July 2014. As of 2022, the ABC is the third-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network and Nine N ...
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IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ...
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Annette Andre
Annette Andre (born 24 June 1939) is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Early life and early career The daughter of an upholsterer, Annette Andre was born in Drummoyne, Australia, as Annette Christine Andreallo. She was brought up in Sydney and educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. She began work as a ballet dancer at the age of 4 at an academy linked to the Australian Ballet. At 15, she decided to stop ballet and pursue acting because she realised that she was not yet 16, the legal age to work in acting. Andre enrolled in a radio training school and her first radio role was in the serial radio drama called ''Kid Grayson Rides the Range''. Her first role was in the television movie '' If It's a Rose''. Her other Australian television performances included ''Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. Later career She went to the UK in 1963 and was cast in ''Emerald Soup''. Her first film role was in '' This Is My Stree ...
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Ethel Lang (actress)
Ethel Isabel Lang (1902 – November 1995), also known as Ethel Brunton, was an Australian actress prominent as a pioneering local radio performer during the 1930s, but also appeared in numerous stage roles. From the age of seven she appeared in school plays and concerts before being asked to play Napoleon's son in ''The Royal Divorce''. Stage roles included Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' and ''The Merchant of Venice'' Radio career Her career in radio began in 1924, and while raising a family during The Depression, World War II and beyond, she had an independent career: *Leading parts in Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio feature plays 1930–40. *in ''One Man's Family'' for commercial radio 2SM. *as "Aunt Jenny" in ''Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories'' for commercial radio 2UE 1943–51. *as Mrs Lawson in the long-running ABC serial ''The Lawsons'', then as Mary "Meg" MacArthur in its even longer-running sequel "Blue Hills (radio serial), Blue Hills". *minor parts in other ...
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The Passionate Pianist
''The Passionate Pianist'' is an Australian television film, or rather a live one-off television play, which aired in 1957 on ABC. This was part of ABC's twice monthly presentations of live plays during the late-1950s (one live play each month in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively, with most kinescoped for showing in the other city). At the time, most one-off drama and comedy plays produced for Australian television were adaptations of overseas works, and ''The Passionate Pianist'' is notable as it represents an early example of a locally-written comedy for the medium. Plot summary Ben, the teenage son of a Sydney bookmaker prefers football to practicing piano. His mother (Marion Johns) is convinced he is a genius and enters him in an eistedford. Cast *Mark Kelly as Ben *Marion Johns as Ben’s Mother * Edward Howell *Ivor Bromley * Bruce A. Wishart Play version ''The Passionate Pianist'' was produced as a one act play. Barbara Vernon was a radio announcer in Inverell and wrote ...
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List Of Live Television Plays Broadcast On Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
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1958 Television Plays
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West Ge ...
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1958 Australian Television Plays
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United F.C., Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed i ...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Original Programming
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