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Lynn Hamilton (actress)
Lynn Hamilton (born April 25, 1930) is an American retired actress whose acting debut came in 1959 in John Cassavetes' ''Shadows''. She is best known for her recurring role as Donna Harris, Fred's girlfriend and later fiancée on the sitcom ''Sanford and Son'' (1972–1977), as well as cousin Georgia Anderson in ''Roots: The Next Generation'', and as Verdie Foster on ''The Waltons''. Early years Hamilton was born Alzenia Lynn Hamilton in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Nancy and Louis Hamilton and moved to Chicago Heights, Illinois, when she was twelve years old. She attended Bloom High School. She studied acting at Goodman Theatre. Career Hamilton began her career in community theatre in Chicago and debuted on Broadway in ''Only in America'' in 1959. She appeared in three other Broadway plays, many Off-Broadway plays and spent three years with the New York Shakespeare Festival. From 1972 to 1977, after an initial credited one-time appearance in the seventh episode of the serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Waltons
''The Waltons'' is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the subsequent United States home front during World War II of the 1940s. It was created by screenwriter / author Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book ''Spencer's Mountain''. ''The Waltons'' aired from 1972 to 1981, but relocated to the fictional Walton's Mountain, Virginia, in the Depression era 1930s and wartime (World War II) 1940s. The television film, TV film special ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'' was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Based on its high ratings and critical responses success, the CBS network ordered the first season of episodes (to be based on the same characters, with some changes in the casting) which became known as the television series ''The Walto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generations (American TV Series)
''Generations'' is an American soap opera that aired on NBC in the United States from March 27, 1989, to January 25, 1991, and in Canada, where it ran on CBC Television. The show was groundbreaking in that it was the first soap opera to feature a Black Americans, Black-American family from its inception. Original cast * Marla Adams (Helen Mullin) * Anthony Addabbo (Jason Craig) * Jonelle Allen (Doreen Jackson) * Jack Betts (Hugh Gardner) * Taurean Blacque/James Reynolds (actor), James Reynolds (Henry Marshall) * Sharon Brown (actress), Sharon Brown/Debbi Morgan (Chantal Marshall) * Patricia Crowley/Dorothy Lyman (Rebecca Whitmore) * George Deloy (Rob Donnelly) * Elinor Donahue (Sylvia Furth) * Rick Fitts (Martin Jackson) * Vivica A. Fox (Maya Reubens) * Bruce Gray (Phillip Webb) * Lynn Hamilton (actress), Lynn Hamilton (Vivian Potter) * Ron Harper (actor), Ron Harper (Peter Whitmore) * Andrew Masset (Trevor McCallum) * Joan Pringle (Ruth Marshall) * Gail Ramsey (Laura McCallum) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangup
''Hangup'', also called '' Hang Up'' and later released under the name ''Super Dude'', is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey. This was the last film directed by Hathaway. The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets". The film follows a black policeman seeking revenge on the man who got his girlfriend addicted to heroin. The film was distributed by American International Pictures, one of the many films it targeted to the new youth market. Josiah Howard states that the marketing "almost makes it look like a spoof of the genre." Howard described the film as "low budget and flashy, but fast-moving and consistently entertaining." Leonard Maltin Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author. He is known for his book of film capsule reviews, '' Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide'', published from 1969 to 2014. Maltin was the film criti ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Sings The Blues (film)
''Lady Sings the Blues'' is a 1972 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography that, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It is produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures. Diana Ross, in her feature film debut, portrays Holiday, alongside a cast that includes Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan and Scatman Crothers. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1973, including Best Actress for Diana Ross. Plot In 1928 Baltimore, Eleanora Fagan, also known as Billie Holiday, works as a 15-year-old housekeeper in a brothel. A man who follows her from the brothel eventually rapes her. She flees to her mother Sadie, who sets her up a job cleaning for another brothel in Harlem. The brothel is run by Lorraine, a woman who pays little money to Billie. Billie tires of scrubbing floors and becomes a prostitute, but soon quits and returns to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck And The Preacher
''Buck and the Preacher'' is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'' said Poitier "showed a talent for easy, unguarded, rambunctious humor missing from his more stately movies". This film broke Hollywood Western traditions by casting black actors as central characters and portraying both tension and solidarity between African Americans and Native Americans in the late 19th century. The notable blues musicians Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Don Frank Brooks performed in the film's soundtrack, composed by jazz great Benny Carter. Plot Set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory shortly after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Buck leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Minutes (film)
''The Seven Minutes'' is a 1971 American legal drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. The movie was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irving Wallace. Plot After a teenager, Jerry Griffith (John Sarno), who purchased the erotic novel ''The Seven Minutes'' is charged with rape, an eager prosecutor who is against pornography (and preparing for an upcoming election) uses the scandal to declare the book as obscene, sets up a sting operation where two detectives enter a bookstore and purchase a copy of the eponymous book, then the prosecutor brings charges against the bookstore for selling obscene material. The trial soon creates a heated debate about the issue of pornography vs. free speech. The young defense lawyer, Mike Barrett, must also solve the mystery of the novel's true author. In examining the history of the book, the defense attorney discovered it was written by J.J. Jadway, an American expatriate living in Europe. The book was originally published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother John (film)
''Brother John'' is a 1971 American drama film about John Kane, an enigmatic African-American man who shows up every time a relative is about to die. When he returns to his Hackley, Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer, it incites the suspicion of notable town officials. Production Although this movie is set in Alabama, it was shot in Marysville, California. Plot John Kane's arrival in town coincides with unrest at a factory where workers are seeking to unionize. Local authorities wrongly suspect John of being an outside organizer for the union cause. The suspicions of the local Sheriff and Doc Thomas' son, the District Attorney, grow after they search John's room and find a passport filled with visa stamps from countries all over the world, including some that few Americans are allowed to travel to. They also find newspaper clippings in a variety of different languages. They consider that he might be a journalist or a government agent. Only Doc Thomas, who was the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Times
''The Washington Times'' is an American Conservatism, conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on Politics of the United States, national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout Washington, D.C. and the greater Washington metropolitan area, including suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. It also publishes a subscription-based weekly tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid edition aimed at a national audience. The first edition of ''The Washington Times'' was published on May 17, 1982. The newspaper was founded by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon, and it was owned until 2010 by News World Communications, an international media Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded by Moon. It is currently owned by Operations Holdings, which is a part of the Unification Church movement. ''The Washington Times'' has been known for its conservative political stance, often supporting the pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demond Wilson
Grady Demond Wilson (born October 13, 1946) is an American actor and author. He played Sanford and Son#Lamont Sanford, Lamont Sanford, the son of Fred G. Sanford, Fred Sanford (played by Redd Foxx) on the NBC sitcom ''Sanford and Son'' (1972–1977). He also portrayed Oscar Madison on ''The New Odd Couple'' (1982–1983) and appeared in the film ''Me and the Kid'' (1993). Early life and career Wilson was born in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1946, and grew up in New York City, where he studied tap dance and ballet. He made his Broadway debut at age four and danced at Harlem's Apollo Theater at age 12. Wilson was raised as a Catholic Church, Catholic and served as an Altar server, altar boy. Although his grandmother, Ada Mitchell, was Pentecostalism, Pentecostal, Wilson briefly discerned the Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Catholic priesthood. At age 13, Wilson's Appendix (anatomy), appendix ruptured, almost killing him, but he vowed to serve God as an adult in some ministerial capacit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Practice
''The Practice'' is an American legal drama television series created by David E. Kelley centering on partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show ran for eight seasons on ABC, from March 4, 1997, to May 16, 2004. It won an Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Outstanding Drama Series, and spawned the spin-off series '' Boston Legal'', which ran for five more seasons (from 2004 to 2008). Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme with light comedy being occasionally present. Kelley claimed that the show was intended to be something of a rebuttal to ''L.A. Law'' and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. Overview In season 1, Robert Donnell and Associates features Bobby Donnell as the sole senior partner in a firm that he started a decade prior with his receptionist Rebecca Washington. Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young and Lindsay Dole are his associates. Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate after losing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnaby Jones
''Barnaby Jones'' is an American detective fiction, detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law. They run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was originally introduced as a midseason replacement on the CBS network and ran from 1973 to 1980. Halfway through the series' run, Mark Shera was added to the cast as a much younger cousin of Ebsen's character, who eventually joined the firm. ''Barnaby Jones'' was produced by Quinn Martin, QM Productions (with Philip Saltzman, Woodruff Productions in the final two seasons). It had the second-longest QM series run (seven and a half seasons), behind ''The F.B.I. (TV series), The F.B.I.'''s nine-year run. The series followed the characteristic Quinn Martin episode format with commercial breaks dividing each episode into four "acts," concluding with an epilogue. The opening credits were narrated by Hank Simms. Jerry Goldsmith co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Generations
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
