Margie (TV Series)
''Margie'' is an American television sitcom starring Cynthia Pepper that was broadcast on ABC from October 12, 1961 to August 31, 1962. Premise ''Margie'' was set in the Roaring Twenties. Margie Clayton lived with her parents, a little brother, and an aunt. Maybelle Jackson (her best friend) was a flapper. Two boys, Heywood Batts and Johnny Green, vied for Margie's affection. The locale was Madison, a small town "somewhere in New England". The series was adapted from the 1946 film of the same name. Larry Klein, one of the producers, said "We have preferred to create our own family and situations rather than rely on fixed characters created by someone else." Among the differences, the film had Margie living with her grandmother because her mother had died when the title character was a little girl. Cast * Cynthia Pepper as Margie Clayton * Dave Willock as Harvey Clayton * Wesley Tackitt as Nora Clayton * Tommy Ivo as Haywood Botts * Penney Parker as Maybelle Jackson * Rich ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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My Little Margie
''My Little Margie'' is an American television sitcom starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California, at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach Jr., and Roland D. Reed. ''My Little Margie'' premiered on CBS as a summer replacement for ''I Love Lucy'' on June 16, 1952, under the sponsorship of Philip Morris cigarettes (when the series moved to NBC for its third season in the fall of 1953, Scott Paper Company became its sponsor). In an unusual move, the series – with the same leads – aired original episodes on CBS Radio, concurrently with the TV broadcasts, from December 1952 through August 1955. Only 23 radio broadcasts are known to exist in recorded form. Synopsis Set in New York City, the series stars Gale Storm as 21-year-old Margie Albright and former silent film star Charles Farrell as her widowed father, 50-year-old Vern Albright. They share an ap ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gene Reynolds
Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal (April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He was one of the developers and producers of the TV series '' M*A*S*H''. Early life Reynolds was born on April 4, 1923, to Frank Eugene Blumenthal, a businessman and entrepreneur, and Maude Evelyn (Schwab) Blumenthal, a model, in Cleveland, Ohio. Reynolds initially was raised in Detroit, before the family relocated to Los Angeles in 1934. Reynolds served in the United States Navy during World War II. He served on ships including a destroyer-minesweeper the USS ''Zane''. Following the war, Reynolds received a degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and resumed his acting career. Career Acting Reynolds made his screen debut in the 1934 ''Our Gang'' short '' Washee Ironee'', and for the next three decades made numerous appearances in films such as '' Captains Courageous'' (1937), '' Love Finds Andy Hardy'' (1938), '' Boys Town'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1960s American Teen Sitcoms
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Laurence Marks (American Writer)
Laurence Marks (August 23, 1915 – January 1, 1993) was an American writer for radio and television shows including ''Hogan's Heroes'' and ''M*A*S*H''. He received an award from the Writers Guild of America. According to ''M*A*S*H'' creator Larry Gelbart Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series '' M*A*S*H'', and as co-writer of the ...,Mike Sacks, And Here's the Kicker, p. 326. he and Marks teamed up in 1946 to write for Jack Paar on radio, then moved to writing for Bob Hope at $1,250 a week each. Selected filmography References External links * American radio writers American television writers American male television writers Writers from Atlantic City, New Jersey Writers Guild of America Award winners 1915 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople Screenwriters from Ne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arnold Horwitt
Arnold B. Horwitt (July 21, 1918 – October 20, 1977) was a writer and lyricist for Broadway shows and television. Horwitt was born in Richmond, Indiana and moved with his family to New York when he was three. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, New York University, and the Columbia School of Journalism. He first worked in vaudeville theaters as an assistant press agent. Horwitt wrote scripts and lyrics for many plays, songs, and television shows, including Broadway shows such as '' Make Mine Manhattan'' (1948) and ''The Girls Against the Boys'' (1959). Horwitt also wrote sketches or lyrics for shows such as ''Are You with It?'' (1945),(2 December 1945)New York Calvacade ''Detroit Evening Times'' '' Call Me Mister'' (1946), '' Two's Company'' (1952), and '' Plain and Fancy'' (1955) (including the often-recorded '' Young and Foolish''). He wrote episodes of numerous television shows from the 1950s into the 1970s, including shows such as ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mel Tolkin
Mel Tolkin ( Shmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007) was an American television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series '' Your Show of Shows'' ( NBC, 1950–1954) during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film '' My Favorite Year'' (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play '' Laughter on the 23rd Floor'' (1993), written by Neil Simon. Tolkin, who won an Emmy Award and every other major prize for television writing, was the father of screenwriter-novelist Michael Tolkin and TV writer- director Stephen Tolkin. Biography Early life and career Mel Tolkin was born Shmuel Tolchinsky (, , , means "from Tuľčyn") in a Jewish shtetl near Odesa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, the son of Nessie (Cartman) and Mendel "Max" Tolchinsky, a labourer and door-to-door salesman. A background of ant ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Larry Rhine
Larry Rhine (May 26, 1910 – October 27, 2000) was an American producer and screenwriter. Early life Rhine was born in San Francisco, California to Elias, a real estate broker and Ester, a homemaker. He had a sister, Loretta Rhine. Rhine attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1931. Career Rhine started his career as an announcer, writer and producer on KGB radio, working with Art Linkletter. In 1936 he moved on to work as a screenwriter for Universal and 20th Century Fox. He also wrote columns for the newspaper ''The Californian''. In the 1940s and 1950s Rhine worked on radio programs including ''The Life of Riley'', '' Private Secretary'' and '' Duffy's Tavern'', among others. In the 1960s to 1970s Rhine wrote episodes for television programs including ''Mister Ed'', '' The Red Skelton Hour'', '' Bachelor Father'', '' The Tom Ewell Show'' and '' The Bob Hope Show''. In 1963, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Burt Styler
Burt Malcolm Styler (February 20, 1925 – June 13, 2011) was an American television and film screenwriter and producer. His film credits include Bob Hope comedy '' Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!'' and such popular TV series as ''The Life of Riley'', ''My Favorite Martian'', '' Mayberry R.F.D.'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''McHale's Navy'', ''Chico and The Man'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Carol Burnett Show'', and ''Too Close For Comfort''. He wrote the teleplay/scripts for four of the popular CBS-TV sitcom series ''All in the Family ''All in the Family'' is an American sitcoms in the United States, sitcom television series that aired on CBS for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes. It was later produced as ''Archie Bunker's Pla ...'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1972, for writing the episode "Edith's Problem". Styler died of heart failure on June 13, 2011, at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center. References Interview cond ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dell Publishing
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, that was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000 (approx. $145,000 in 2021), two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about films, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day). During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included '' 1000 Jokes'', launched in 1938. From 1929 to 1974, they published comics under the Dell Comics line, the bulk of which (1938–62) was done in partnership with Western Publishing. In 1943, Dell entered into paperback book publishing with Dell Paperbacks. They also used the book imprints of Dial Press, Delacorte Books, Delacorte Press, Yearling Books, and Laurel Leaf Library. Dell was acqu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Margie (song)
"Margie", also known as "My Little Margie", is a 1920 popular song composed in collaboration by vaudeville performer and pianist Con Conrad and ragtime pianist J. Russel Robinson, a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Lyrics were written by Benny Davis, a vaudeville performer and songwriter. The song was introduced by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1920 as Victor 78, 18717-A, in a medley paired with "Singin' the Blues". The B side was " Palesteena". The ODJB recorded their instrumental version on December 1, 1920. Other popular versions in 1920-1921 were by Gene Rodemich; Eddie Cantor; Ted Lewis; and Frank Crumit. The Rega Dance Orchestra recorded the song in October, 1920 for Okeh Records, 4211. The song was published in 1920 and was named after the five-year-old daughter of singer and songwriter Eddie Cantor. Cantor is credited with popularizing the song with his 1921 recording that stayed at the top of the pop charts for five weeks. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |