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Joan Tompkins
Joan Swenson (July 9, 1915 – January 29, 2005), previously known as Joan Tompkins, was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage. Early life and career A New York City native, the eldest of two daughters born to Merritt E. Tompkins and Florence H. Aitken, Tompkins performed with stock theater companies in Mount Kisco, New York and White Plains, New York. She acted on Broadway in ''My Sister Eileen'', ''The Golden Journey'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', and ''Fly Away Home''. Personal life On July 25, 1936, Tompkins married actor Stephen Ker Appleby in Briarcliff, New York. They were divorced on December 4, 1941. She was also married to actor Karl Swenson."Reunion of Pals" '' The Daily Herald''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charme Allen
Charme Allen (born Charme Willa Wright,Knox, Charles Victor (April 20, 1935)"Charme Allen a Dependable Studio Theater Performer" ''The Buffalo News''. p. 19. November 19, 1890 – October 4, 1980)Wilson, Scott (2016)Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 15. ./ was an actress in old-time radio, on television, and on the stage, as well as a pianist, best known for her long tenure as Aunt Polly on the radio serial '' David Harum''. She was also the voice of Borden's Elsie the Cow at the 1939 World's Fair and the original narrator for the American Ballet Theatre's debut production of Prokofiev's ''Peter and the Wolf''."Charme Allen Dies at 89; Pioneer Radio Actress" ''The Buffalo News''. October 10, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popi
''Popi'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno. The screenplay was written by Tina Pine and Lester Pine. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem. Plot Abraham Rodriguez, known as Popi to his sons Luis and Junior, supports them by working three jobs, leaving him little time to supervise them. He hopes to earn enough to marry his girlfriend Lupe and move the family into a better home in Brooklyn. Then reality crashes in as the boys see gangs do violence in the neighborhood and are even victimized when their clothes are stolen from them. While working at a banquet in New York for Cuban exiles, he hatches an idea. Realizing his boys have a better chance of making good as political refugees than products of the ghetto in which he's raising them, he plots to set them adrift in a rowboat off the coast of Mia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series)
''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series based on Robert Lewis Taylor's 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, same name, and starring Kurt Russell, Dan O'Herlihy and (in the final 13 episodes) Charles Bronson. The series aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC for one season, 1963–64, and was produced by MGM Television. Synopsis The series was aimed at teenaged boys and young families. It was known for the breakthrough performances of the 12-year-old Kurt Russell in the title role and Charles Bronson as Linc Murdock, the second wagon master in the last 13 episodes. Bronson began his role in the episode "The Day of the Toll Takers" (January 5, 1964). Each episode begins with the title "The Day of ..." Although it started out with an ensemble cast, by the end of the run, the cast had largely been reduced to the characters of Jaimie and Linc. The orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Route 66 (TV Series)
''Route 66'' is an American adventure crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until March 20, 1964, for a total of 116 episodes. The series was created by Herbert B. Leonard and Stirling Silliphant, who were also responsible for the ABC drama '' Naked City'', from which ''Route 66'' was an indirect spin-off. Both series employed a format with elements of both traditional drama and anthology drama, but the difference was where the shows were set: ''Naked City'' was set in New York City, while ''Route 66'' had its setting change from week to week, with each episode being shot on location. ''Route 66'' followed two young men traversing the United States in a Chevrolet Corvette convertible, and the events and consequences surrounding their journeys. Martin Milner starred as Tod Stiles, a recent college graduate with no future prospects because of circumstances beyond his control. He was originally joined on his travels by Buz Murdock (pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lieutenant
''The Lieutenant'' is an American television program, television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. An hour-long drama, it aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of MGM, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at U.S. Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton in California, ''The Lieutenant'' focuses on enlisted Marines and officers in peacetime with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the camp's training instructors. The series involved a number of actors well known for their other roles, including several who would later appear in Roddenberry's more well known work, ''Star Trek''. The central character—whose middle name would be shared with the character James T. Kirk—was played by Gary Lockwood, who was featured in the second ''Star Trek'' pilot "Where No Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Danny Thomas Show
''The Danny Thomas Show'' (titled ''Make Room for Daddy'' for its first three seasons) is an American sitcom that ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. Starring Danny Thomas as a successful night club entertainer, the show focused on his relationship with his family, yet went through a number of significant changes in cast and characters during the course of its run. Episodes regularly featured music by Thomas, guest stars and occasionally other cast members as part of the plot. In March 1953, Thomas first signed the contract for the show with ABC and chose Desilu Studios to film it using its three-camera method. Two proposed titles during pre-production were ''The Children's Hour'' and ''Here Comes Daddy''. Synopsis Thomas played the role of Danny Williams, a successful comedian and nightclub entertainer at the Copa Club, based on the iconic New York City nightclub the Copacabana. In the show's first iteration as ''Make Room for Daddy'', Jean Hagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Stop (TV Series)
''Bus Stop'' is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, ''Bus Stop'', and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing. Increasingly, as it became difficult to have guest stars be characters arriving by bus every week, the stories became more about people in the town which left little for Maxwell's character to do and led to her leaving the series after 13 episodes. She said, "There was nothing for me to do but pour a second cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Breed (TV Series)
''The New Breed'' is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961, to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes. The series was a QM Production in association with Selmur Productions, Inc. Synopsis The series stars Leslie Nielsen as the serious Lieutenant Price Adams who worked on "The Hot Shot Detail" of the LAPD's Metro Squad and former Major League Baseball player John Beradino as Sergeant Vince Cavelli. The script for the first episode, "No Fat Cops," was written by Hank Searls, credited as the creator of the series. Searls also wrote an original novel based on the series under the pseudonym "Lee Costigan." ''The New Breed'' was the first independent production of Quinn Martin under his newly established company, QM Productions. Prior to starting his own production company, Martin had produced '' The Untouchables'' for Desilu Productions, and Nielsen was cast for the role of Adams because of a guest appearance he had made on that program in the epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel (TV Series)
Hazels are plants of the genus ''Corylus'' of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family, Betulaceae,Germplasmgobills Information Network''Corylus''Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins .Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . though some botanists split the hazels (with the hornbeams and allied genera) into a separate family Corylaceae. The fruit of the hazel is the hazelnut. Hazels have simple, rounded leaves with double-serrate margins. The flowers are produced very early in spring before the leaves, and are monoecious, with single-sex catkins. The male catkins are pale yellow and long, and the female ones are very small and largely concealed in the buds, with only the bright-red, 1-to-3 mm-long styles visible. The fruits are nuts long and 1–2 cm diameter, surrounded by an involucre (husk) which partly to fully e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures In Paradise (TV Series)
''Adventures in Paradise'' is an American one-hour television series created by James Michener and starring Gardner McKay, which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962. Premise Gardner McKay starred as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner ''Tiki III'', which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. The plots deal with the romantic and detective adventures of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, featured George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson. Jacques Tourneur directed the 1962 episode "A Bride for the Captain"''.'' Cast Main *Gardner McKay as Captain Adam Troy *James Holden as Clay Baker (seasons 2–3) *Guy Stockwell as Chris Parker (season 3) Recurring * Weaver Levy as Oliver Lee (season 1) *Henry Slate as Bulldog Lovey (season 1) * Linda Lawson as Renee (seasons 1–2) *George Tobias as Trader Penrose (season 2) *Lani Kai as Kelly (seasons 2–3) *Marcel Hillaire as Inspector Bouchard (seasons 2–3) *Sond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies, which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love My Wife (film)
''I Love My Wife'', stylized as ''I Love My...Wife'', is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Mel Stuart. It stars Elliott Gould and Brenda Vaccaro. Plot Richard Burrows is a medical student with a pregnant wife, Jody, who becomes unappealing to him before and after childbirth; she abstains from sex and gains weight. When her mother moves in with them, Richard's home life frustrates him even more. Flirtations with nurses and patients begin, with Jody catching him being unfaithful. But after he becomes a surgeon at a Los Angeles hospital, the infidelity continues. Richard meets a married model, Helene Donnelly, and begins meeting her secretly in motels. They contemplate getting divorces. Richard decides to make one last attempt to save his marriage. He evicts his mother-in-law from the premises and persuades Jody to go to a weight-loss center. When his wife returns, she is slim and beautiful again and Richard is pleased, until learning that now she wants a divorce. Cast *Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
