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Junius Matthews
Junius Conyers Matthews (June 12, 1890 – January 18, 1978) was an American actor in films, theater, radio and television. He was the voice of Archimedes the Owl in Disney's '' The Sword in the Stone'' in 1963. He was also the original voice of Rabbit in the '' Winnie the Pooh'' franchise from 1966 to 1977. Career Matthews began his acting career on Broadway in shows like ''Young Wisdom'' (1914) and ''Any House'' (1916) before he got his first role in a silent film called ''The Silent Witness'' (1917). He briefly stopped performing while serving as a private in World War I. Over the course of the 1920s he alternated between stage and radio productions. He later played the role of the Tin Woodsman on a radio version of ''The Wizard of Oz''. His distinctive voice can be frequently heard in supporting roles in radio, particularly westerns where he was often cast as an old codger, miner, or master of the cook wagon. Matthews appeared on the short-lived series ''Luke Slaughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = U.S. state, State , subdivision_type2 = List of counties in Illinois, Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook County, Illinois, Cook and DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Municipal corporation, Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council government, Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor of Chicago, Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree
''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree'' is a 1966 animated featurette based on the first two chapters of '' Winnie-the-Pooh'' by A. A. Milne. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution on February 4, 1966 as a double feature with '' The Ugly Dachshund''. It was the last short film produced by Walt Disney, who died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, ten months after its release. Its songs were written by the Sherman Brothers ( Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) and the score was composed and conducted by Buddy Baker. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the first animated featurette in the '' Winnie the Pooh'' film series, in which it was later added as a segment to the 1977 film '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh''. It had featured the voices of Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, Junius Matthews as Rabbit, Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin, Clint Howard as Roo, Barbara Luddy as Kanga, Ralph Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken Every Sunday
''Chicken Every Sunday'' is a 1949 American comedy film directed by George Seaton. The screenplay by Seaton and Valentine Davies is based on the 1944 play of the same title by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, which was based on the memoir by Rosemary Taylor. Plot In Tucson, Arizona in 1910, Emily Hefferen visits attorney Robert Hart to file for divorce from her husband Jim, citing his lack of support as grounds. When Hart expresses surprise, given the local hotel, laundry, and dairy bear the Heffernen name, suggesting the family is wealthy, Emily describes her family life for the past twenty years. On their wedding day, Emily discovers Jim, vice-president of the bank, has either donated or lost all his money on bad investments. In order to make ends meet, she takes in another newlywed couple as boarders in their home on the edge of town. As time passes and each of Jim's new moneymaking schemes fails, his wife takes in new boarders in order to make the monthly mortgage pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
''The Shocking Miss Pilgrim'' is a 1947 American musical comedy film in Technicolor written and directed by George Seaton and starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes. The screenplay, based on a story by Ernest Maas and Frederica Maas, focuses on a young typist who becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement in 1874. The songs were composed by George and Ira Gershwin. Marilyn Monroe made her film debut as an uncredited voice as a telephone operator. Plot Cynthia Pilgrim is the top typewriting (i.e. typing) student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position as a typewriter (i.e. typist) with the Pritchard Shipping Company in Boston. There, she finds an office of men overseen by office manager Mr. Saxon. When Cynthia introduces herself to company co-owner John Pritchard, he tells her he thought all expert typists were male and his policy is to hire only men. Cynthia asks for an opportunity to prove sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I've Always Loved You
''I've Always Loved You'' is a 1946 American drama musical film produced and directed by Frank Borzage and written by Borden Chase. The film stars Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, William Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya, Felix Bressart and Elizabeth Patterson. Rare for a film produced by Republic Pictures, ''I've Always Loved You'' is a high-budget prestige production with an A-list director in Borzage. Plot The film was based on Chase's story ''Concerto,'' which in turn was based on the career of his first wife. It was originally called ''Concerto'' and was the most expensive film ever made by Republic Pictures. Cast * Philip Dorn as Leopold Goronoff * Catherine McLeod as Myra Hassman *Bill Carter as George Sampter *Maria Ouspenskaya as Madame Goronoff *Felix Bressart as Frederick Hassman * Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Sompter * Vanessa Brown as Georgette 'Porgy' Sampter at 17 *Lewis Howard as Michael Severin * Adele Mara as Señorita Fortaleza *Gloria Donovan as Porgy at 5 * Stephan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Angel (1946 Film)
''Black Angel'' is a 1946 American film noir directed as his final feature by Roy William Neill and starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre. Produced by Universal Pictures, it is set in Los Angeles and broadly adapted from the 1943 The Black Angel (novel), novel of the same title by Cornell Woolrich. Plot Catherine Bennett, a falsely convicted man's wife, together with alcoholic musician Marty Blair, team up in an attempt to clear her adulterous husband of the murder of the singer, Mavis Marlowe, who had once been Marty's wife. Their investigation leads them to confrontations with a determined policeman, Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD Captain Flood, and a shifty nightclub owner, Mr. Marko, whom Catherine and Marty suspect may be the real killer. Marty had seen Marko heading for Mavis Marlowe’s apartment on the night of the murder. Since Marty is a composer and pianist, while Catherine is a former singer, the two audition for a spot in Marko's club and are hired. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without Reservations
''Without Reservations'' is a 1946 RKO Radio Pictures American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claudette Colbert, John Wayne and Don DeFore. The film was adapted by Andrew Solt from the novel ''Thanks, God! I'll Take It From Here'' by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston. Plot Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden travels to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her bestselling book ''Here is Tomorrow''. The film was originally supposed to star Cary Grant as the Army Air Forces pilot hero Mark Winston and Lana Turner, but Grant has withdrawn and the producer wants an unknown actor to play Winston. On a train to Hollywood, Kit meets two Marine pilots, captain "Rusty" Thomas and first lieutenant "Dink" Watson. She considers Rusty the best choice to play Winston, but he is dismissive of her book, as she wrote a political allegory and he does not believe that Grant would refuse Turner for 400 pages. Unsure how he will react if he discovers that she is a famo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Witness (1917 Film)
''The Silent Witness'' is a 1917 American silent independent drama film directed by Harry Lambart and starring Gertrude McCoy, Frank O'Connor and Jack Sherrill.Marez p.191 It was based on the 1916 Broadway play ''The Silent Witness'' by Otto Hauerbach. Cast * Gertrude McCoy as Helen Hastings * Frank O'Connor as Richard Morgan * Edwin Forsberg as John Pellman * Junius Matthews as Bud Morgan * Alphie James as Sarah Blakely * Helen May as Janet Rigsby * Roulef E. Cotton as Wilbur Weldon * Jack Sherrill as Travers * A.J. Herbert AJ, or variants, may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * A. J. (''The Fairly OddParents''), a fictional character * A.J. Soprano, a fictional character in ''The Sopranos'' * Superspinner AJ, a fictional character in th ... as Norman Blakely * Fred Graham as Rigsby * Albert Phillips as Mr. Weldon References Bibliography * Curtis Marez. ''University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus''. Univ of California Press, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media News Group
MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns over 100 newspapers and 200 assorted other publications. With its acquisition of '' Tribune Publishing'' in late May 2021, Digital First Media became the second-largest owner of newspapers in the United States, as calculated by total number of subscribers. It is second to Gannett. History MediaNews Group was founded by Richard Scudder and William Dean Singleton. Both had experience in the American newspaper industry. Scudder ran the Newark (New Jersey) News, a newspaper founded by his grandfather. Singleton had begun his career as a reporter when he was 15, for a small-town Texas newspaper and subsequently became the president of Albritton Communications, a newspaper conglomerate in Texas. Based in Denver, Colorado, Scudder and Singleton purcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Salt Lake Tribune
''The Salt Lake Tribune'' is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The ''Tribune'' is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The newspaper's motto is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871." History A successor to ''Utah Magazine'' (1868), as the ''Mormon Tribune'' by a group of businessmen led by former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and Edward Tullidge, who disagreed with the church's economic and political positions. After a year, the publishers changed the name to the ''Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette'', but soon after that, they shortened it to ''The Salt Lake Tribune''. Three Kansas businessmen, Frederic Lockley, George F. Prescott and A.M. Hamilton, purchased the company in 1873 and turned it into an anti-Mormon newspaper which consistently backed the local Liberal Party. Sometimes vitriolic, the ''Tribune'' held particular antipathy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Sansom
Frank Kenneth Sansom (April 2, 1927 – October 8, 2012) was an American actor. Among his best known roles, Sansom voiced Rabbit (Winnie-the-Pooh)#Disney adaptations, Rabbit in animated television series, television specials, and films for Disney's ''Winnie the Pooh (franchise), Winnie the Pooh'' franchise from 1988 to 2010. Early life Sansom was born on April 2, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He enlisted in the United States Navy soon after graduating from East High School (Salt Lake City), East High School in Salt Lake City in 1944. Sansom enrolled at the University of Utah following World War II, but did not complete his studies at that university. He transferred to Brigham Young University, where he received a bachelor's degree in radio broadcasting in 1949. He was recalled by the U.S. Navy for service during the Korean War. He served as a member of the United Service Organizations, providing entertainment to American troops while in Korea. Career Sansom started his career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Ryan
William Frank Ryan (May 21, 1949 – November 19, 2021) was an American voice actor, musician and singer. He provided the voice of Petrie in the 1988 animated film '' The Land Before Time''. He was also known for his voice work as Eugene Meltsner in the Christian radio drama '' Adventures in Odyssey'' and Grubby in '' The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin''. Life and career Ryan was born on May 21, 1949 and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He became established by singing about the American West. In summer 1966, Ryan's earlier band, Wead, played a gig in Wellington, Ohio. In late 1970s, he teamed up with Phil Baron as Willio and Phillio. They had regular gigs on television, radio and comedy clubs and universities throughout the U.S.. They later paired up again voicing characters of best friends Teddy Ruxpin (Baron) and Grubby the Octopede (Ryan) in the Teddy Ruxpin book and tape series as well as the 1986–87 television show '' The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin''. In August 2002, Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
