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Mary Lawrence (actor)
Mary Lawrence (born Mary Lou Lender, May 17, 1918September 24, 1991) was an American actress, who had a career in film and television. She was the wife of film director Delmer Daves. She had a recurring role in the Television syndication, syndicated television series ''Casey Jones (TV series), Casey Jones'', where she played Jones's wife Alice with Alan Hale Jr. as her husband. Lawrence also appeared in episodes of ''The Bob Cummings Show'', ''The Donna Reed Show'', and ''Dragnet (series), Dragnet''. After she retired from acting, she turned to writing books on art. Filmography Bibliography * * References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Mary 1918 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers American art writers American film actresses American television actresses American women non-fiction writers Western (genre) film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Says No
''The Lady Says No'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Frank Ross (producer), Frank Ross, starring Joan Caulfield, David Niven and James Robertson Justice, photographed by James Wong Howe, and featuring sequences filmed at Fort Ord, Pebble Beach, California, Pebble Beach and Carmel, California. The supporting cast features Frances Bavier, who later played "Aunt Bee" on television's ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Director Ross was married to Caulfield, the film's leading lady. Plot Bill Shelby (David Niven) is a globe-trotting author and photographer on assignment from ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine to do a photo story on Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), best-selling author of the title book, "The Lady Says 'No'". Rather than finding a dour spinster, as he expects, she is a young blonde woman he finds attractive. Her interactions with him lead her to question her feminist convictions, such as it being unsuitable for a woman to illogically fall in love with someone she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Task Force (film)
''Task Force'' is a 1949 American war film about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from to . Although Robert Montgomery was originally considered for the leading role, the film stars Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Walter Brennan, Wayne Morris, Julie London and Jack Holt. ''Task Force'' was the only film Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt made together, and was the last of the eight films Cooper and Walter Brennan made together. Filmed in black-and-white with some Technicolor sequences, the picture received the complete support of the U.S. Navy, which lent naval vessels and facilities and allowed archival footage of the development of naval air power to be used. Plot As a 1917 graduate of the Naval Academy, Naval Aviator Jonathan L. "Scotty" Scott (Gary Cooper) spends 28 years, from 1921 to 1949, promoting U.S. naval aviation and the power of the aircraft carrier. During that period, he antagonizes powerful people in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Congress, and marries Mary Morg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawbreakers
''The Lawbreakers'' is a 1961 American film directed by Joseph M. Newman. Made in a film noir style, the crime drama is based on the pilot episode of the 1961 television series ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and stars an ensemble cast including Jack Warden, Vera Miles, Robert Douglas, and Arch Johnson. The film tells the story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioners efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department. Plot Allen Bardeman is a prominent, married lawyer who collects money from the numbers racket for the syndicate. His legal secretary, Angela Walsh, is also his mistress, and he provides her with a house of her own, where Sam Henry – a corrupt New York City administrator who acts as a "bag man" for the syndicate – makes a weekly visit to pick up money from Bardeman. Bardemans lavish lifestyle and tax problems have p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Asphalt Jungle (TV Series)
''The Asphalt Jungle'' is a 1961 American police procedural television series starring Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, and William Smith (actor), Bill Smith about a squad of detectives targeting organized crime in the Midwestern United States. Inspired by the 1950 film ''The Asphalt Jungle'', it aired from April 2 to June 25, 1961, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC, followed by reruns until September 24, 1961.McNeil, Alex, ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 64. ''The Asphalt Jungle''s pilot episode was re-edited and lengthened to create the 1961 theatrical film ''The Lawbreakers''. Synopsis The police department's Metropolitan Squad specializes in fighting organized crime in an unnamed Midwestern United States, Midwestern city. The squads members are elite detectives led by Police captain, Captain Gus Honochek and Police sergeant, Sergeant Danny Keller. They report to Deputy Police Commissioner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Hunt
''Sea Hunt'' is an American action adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as former Navy diver Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors. Development Series executive producer Ivan Tors conceived the idea for ''Sea Hunt'' while working on the 1958 film '' Underwater Warrior''. He tried in vain to sell the series to all three major networks, but each network passed on it because they felt that a series set underwater could not be sustained. Tors then decided to sell it into the first-run syndication market. He teamed up with Ziv Television Programs and was able to sell it to more than 100 syndicated markets before it debuted in January 1958. Lloyd Bridges was cast as lead character Mike Nelson. ''Sea Hunt'' was intended as a comeback vehicle for Bridges due to his brief black-listing from acting. He was restr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic. * February 2 – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Zafar Masud (air commodore), Mitty Masud set a World record loop, world record performing a 16 aircraft diamon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
