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Janette Craig
Janette Craig is an Australian actress best known for her performance in television soap opera ''Autumn Affair'' and as Bubba in ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (1959). Biography She worked as an assistant manager at the Comedy Theatre. In 1957 she was voted Miss New South Wales. The following year she married British composer Eric Rasdall. She had a regular role on Australia's first soap opera, ''Autumn Affair'' but had to leave it to feature in ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. She retired from acting and moved into production when her young daughter fell ill. Select credits *'' The Adventures of Long John Silver'' - "The Pink Pearl" (1954) *''My Three Angels''/''Teahouse of the August Moon'' (1956) - stage performances *'' Tomorrow's Child'' (1957) *''The Art of Being Happily Married'' (1957) radio play *''The Big Knife'' (1957) - stage performance *'' Killer in Close Up'' - "The Trial of Madeleine Smith" (1958) - as Madeleine Smith *''Arrow in the Air'' (1958) radio play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Affair
''Autumn Affair'' is an Australian television soap opera made by and aired by Network Seven station ATN-7, and also shown in Melbourne on Nine Network station GTV-9. Television in Australia had only been broadcasting since 1956 and Seven Network was the first commercial station to make drama a priority. It premiered on Monday 20 October 1958 and continued until 20 October 1959. The series was notable as being the first ever Australian produced television soap opera to air in that country. It was also the second regular Australian-produced dramatic television series of any kind, with previous locally produced drama consisting of religious series '' The House on the Corner'', since other content drama that was produced locally.by the ABC was televised plays. Synopsis Autumn Affair centres around The love lives of a middle aged widow, Julia, and her daughter, Meg. Cast * Muriel Steinbeck as Julia Parrish * Queenie Ashton as Granny Bishop * Leonard Bullen as Steve Meadows * Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll (1959 Film)
''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (U.S. title: ''Season of Passion'') is a 1959 Australian-British film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills and Angela Lansbury. It was written by John Dighton based on the 1955 Ray Lawler play '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. It has been called "one of the most frustrating movies ever made in Australia" because "it had terrific source material, the backing of a Hollywood studio, a decent group of filmmakers" but the result was critically and commercially underwhelming. Plot Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married; however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl. Roo has had a bad season, losing his place as head of the cane cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Women's Weekly
''The Australian Women's Weekly'', sometimes known simply as ''The Weekly'', is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Are Media in Sydney and founded in 1933. For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' in 2014. , ''The Weekly'' has overtaken '' Better Homes and Gardens'' again, coming out on top as Australia's most read magazine. The magazine invested in the 2020 film ''I Am Woman'' about Helen Reddy, singer and feminist icon. History and profile The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore as a weekly publication. The first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out by William Edwin Pidgeon who went on to do many famous covers over the next 25 years. It was to have two distinctive features; firstly, the newspaper's features would have an element of topicality, and secondly the magazine would appeal to all Australian women, reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Long John Silver
''The Adventures of Long John Silver'' is a TV series about the Long John Silver character from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel ''Treasure Island''. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television. Cast and characters * Robert Newton as Long John Silver * Connie Gilchrist as Purity Pinker * Kit Taylor as Jim Hawkins * Grant Taylor as Patch * Eric Reiman as Trip Fenner * John Brunskill as Old Stingley * Harry Hambleton as Big Eric * Gordon Chater as Alfredo * Ray Barrett as Paul Newton and several of the other actors had the same roles as in the 1954 film ''Long John Silver'', also shot in Australia. Broadcast history The series was shown in the United States from 22 September 1955, and in the UK on ITV in 1957. It was shown in Australia on the ABC in 1958, in the afternoon Children's TV Club. It was also shown on commercial regional TV in the mid to late 70s in Australia. In 1985 the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow's Child (film)
''Tomorrow's Child'' is an Australian television film, or rather a live one-off television play, which aired in 1957 on ABC. Directed by Raymond Menmuir, it is notable as an early example of Australian television comedy and was Australia's first live hour long drama. It was set in the future, making it technically Australia's first science fiction drama. Synopsis Promoted as ''A satirical comedy of the future'', it was set in a fictional police state. Cast * James Condon as John Worthing * Janette Craig * Queenie Ashton * Mayne Lynton * Tom Farley * Bernard Barber * Lola Brooks Craig and Ashton later were regulars on ''Autumn Affair'' (1958-1959), the first Australian-produced television soap opera. Production It was based on a 1947 play by John Coates, and written by Alan Seymour. Broadcast It aired on Sydney station ABN-2 on 9 April 1957. A kinescope was made of the broadcast and shown in Melbourne on ABV-2 on 26 April 1957, it is not known if the kinescope recording s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer In Close Up
''Killer in Close-Up'' was a blanket title covering four live television drama plays produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957 and 1958. It could be seen as the first anthology series produced for Australian television. Production of the plays was split equally between the Melbourne and Sydney ABC stations, with the first and fourth being produced in Sydney, the second and third in Melbourne. Each ran for 25 minutes. The plays were produced by Christopher Muir, Raymond Menmuir and Will Sterling. The title came from the use of the close up in television drama. The drama plays were based on real-life cases, dramatised for television by George F. Kerr. They were, in order: * “The Robert Wood Trial” (4/9/57) * “The Wallace Case” (20/11/57) * “The Rattenbury Case” (18/6/58) * “The Trial Of Madeleine Smith” (13/8/58) In Melbourne, the play aired against ''Chesebrough-Ponds Playhouse'' on HSV-7 (which consisted selections from US anthology series) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Hamilton Smith (29 March 1835 – 12 April 1928) was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Background Smith was the first child (of five) of an upper-middle-class family in Glasgow; her father, James Smith (Glasgow architect), James Smith (1808–1863), was a wealthy architect, and her mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of leading neo-classical architect David Hamilton (architect), David Hamilton. She was born at the family home 81 Wellington Place in Glasgow. In 1855 the family moved from India Street to 7 Blythswood Square, Glasgow, living in the lower half of a house owned by her maternal uncle, David Hamilton, a yarn merchant. The house stands at the crown of the major development led by William Harley on Blythswood Hill, and they also had a country property, "Rowaleyn", near Helensburgh. Smith broke the strict Victorian morality, Victorian conventions of the time when, as a young woman in ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiplash (TV Series)
''Whiplash'' is a British/Australian television series in the Australian Western genre, produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment, and starring Peter Graves. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in September 1960, and in Australia in February 1961. Overview Set during the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s, the series was inspired by the life of Freeman Cobb, founder of the iconic Australian stagecoach line, Cobb and Co. However, the characters and events in the series bore no resemblance to the real Freeman Cobb or his company. Freeman Cobb did not carry a pistol or use a stockwhip to settle disputes. The series was created by Michael Noonan and Michael Plant, and produced by Maurice Geraghty and Ben Fox at the Artransa Studios in Sydney, which were owned by ATV. Post-production was completed in the United Kingdom. Michael Plant and Ralph Peterson were story editors. Cast and characters In his autobiography, associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Unlimited
''Adventure Unlimited'' is a 1965 Australian anthology TV series. It was produced by Lee Robinson and associate produced by Joy Cavill. The directors included Ken Hannam. It was made by Waratah Film Productions a short lived company that came out of an unsuccessful attempt to gain a third commercial television licence. It has been described as "surprisingly obscure" considering the talent involved. Broadcast history The series was made in 1963, but was not shown in Sydney until 1965, airing on Channel Ten on Friday nights at 7.30. An episode appears to have aired on Thursday, 30 September 1965. It was not seen in Melbourne until 1968, where it started 15 September. It sold to Canadian television and screened there in 1965. Episodes Ten episodes were completed, three episodes were abandoned mid-production and a further 13 episodes were planned. Production Lee Robinson had extensive experience making documentaries and films in New Guinea and the outback. Five episodes were s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Whittington Esquire
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Courrier Australien
''Le Courrier Australien'' is a bilingual French-English online newspaper based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History Published for the first time in Sydney on 30 April 1892, by Charles Wroblewski, ''Le Courrier Australien'' has been the longest running foreign language newspaper in Australia. It is a bilingual news source, providing the community with updates on the latest news in both English and French. ''Le Courrier Australien'' has been fundamental in integrating the French speaking community in Australia while simultaneously exposing the Australian community to French language, culture, philosophy and lifestyle for over 125 years. The publication of the printed newspaper ceased in 2011. The newspaper has been digitised and is available on Trove Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and 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. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
