Me, Natalie
''Me, Natalie'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe about a young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring artistic painter. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an original story by Stanley Shapiro. Patty Duke, who stars in the title role, won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. The film also features James Farentino, Salome Jens, Elsa Lanchester, Martin Balsam and Nancy Marchand. It marks Al Pacino's film debut. Plot From childhood, Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller, who has a slight overbite and a somewhat large nose, considers herself to be homely, and has never subscribed to her mother's determined belief that she will grow up to be pretty. By contrast, her best friend Betty is a popular and beautiful blonde cheerleader who has been going steady with the handsome Stanley since junior high school. Natalie's efforts to become a cheerleader, impress a blind date, and attend her graduation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fred Coe
Frederick Hayden Hughs Coe (December 23, 1914 – April 29, 1979) was an American television producer and director most famous for '' The Goodyear Television Playhouse''/'' The Philco Television Playhouse'' in 1948-1955 and ''Playhouse 90'' from 1957 to 1959. Among the live TV dramas he produced were '' Marty'' and '' The Trip to Bountiful'' for '' Goodyear''/'' Philco'', '' Peter Pan'' for '' Producers' Showcase'', and '' Days of Wine and Roses'' for ''Playhouse 90''. Early life Frederick Hayden Hughs Coe was born on December 23, 1914, in Alligator, Mississippi. His father, F. H. H. Coe, was an attorney; his mother, Annette Harrell Coe, was a nurse. Coe grew up in Buckhorn, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Peabody Demonstration School in Nashville and Peabody College, before studying at the Yale Drama School. While he lived in Nashville he was active with the Nashville Community Playhouse and founded the Hillsboro Players. Career Coe went to Columbia, South ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino ( ; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. His career spans more than five decades, during which he has earned many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, achieving the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also received four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2007, the National Medal of Arts in 2011, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2016. A method actor, Pacino studied at HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. Pacino went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in '' Scent of a Woman'' (1992). His other Oscar-nominated roles were in ''The Godfather'' (1972), '' Serpico'' (1973), ''The G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nathan Wasserberger
Nathan Wasserberger (1928-2013) was a Jewish Polish painter, known for his portrait paintings, including in particular nudes and depictions of women in kimono. Originally from Chrzanów, Poland, he survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States in 1946 or 1947. Seven photographs of Wasserberger and 67 photographs of his paintings, are held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Born June 24, 1928, in Chrzanów, Poland, Wasserberger survived the Buchenwald concentration camp and settled in New York City in 1946 or 1947. He studied art at the Pratt Institute and under Ivan Olinsky and Byron Brown at the Art Students' League in New York, as well as at the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 1940s, and won awards for his paintings while still a student. Many of the paintings he produced during his first years in the United States were directly influenced by, or addressed themes of, his experience in the Holocau ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robbi Morgan
''Friday the 13th'' is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to reopen an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past. Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's ''Halloween'' (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in ''Variety'' in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the screenplay. After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the summer of 1979, on an estimated budget of approximately $550,000. A bidding war ensued over the finished film, ending with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film for domestic distribution, while Warner Bros. secured international distribution rights. Released on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Milt Kamen
Milton Kaiman (March 5, 1921 – February 24, 1977), better known as Milt Kamen, was an American stand-up comic and actor with numerous television credits. As a stand-up comic, Kamen was a favorite of Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx and Woody Allen. According to writer Kliph Nesteroff, Kamen worked as a stand-in for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, inventing bits of business that Caesar claimed for his own. Life and career Born in Hurleyville, New York, his family moved to the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York when he was two years old. Kamen began his comedy career as a regular on ''Caesar's Hour'' in 1954. He frequently performed his comedy routines on shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Perry Como, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Johnny Carson and made guest appearances on Funny You Should Ask (1968), ''What's My Line?'', ''The Match Game'', ''Tattletales'', ''Pantomime Quiz'', ''The Gong Show'', ''Personality'', ''Password'', '' Missing Links'', ''You're Putting Me ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Matthew Cowles
Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright. Early life The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City. Career In 1966 Cowles played the title role in Edward Albee's short-lived adaptation of James Purdy's comic novel ''Malcolm'' on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. In 1968, he appeared with Al Pacino and John Cazale in Israel Horovitz's ''The Indian Wants the Bronx''. In 1983, Cowles joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company for their first repertory season, performing in ''Paradise Lost'', ''Rain'', ''Inheritors'', and ''The Hasty Heart''. Cowles' first television part was Joe Czernak in the series ''NYPD'' in 1969. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 1978 and as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 1981, both for his part as Billy Clyde Tuggle in ''All My Children'', a role that he created and wrote. Co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Catherine Burns
Catherine Burns (September 25, 1945 – February 2, 2019) was an American actress of stage, film, radio and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''Last Summer (1969 film), Last Summer'' (1969). Early years Burns was born and raised in Manhattan. She attended Hunter College High School, Hunter College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Burns's professional acting debut occurred in David Susskind's TV production of ''The Crucible'' (1967). She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 1968 in ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'', for which she received the Clarence Derwent Awards, Clarence Derwent Award. She also appeared in ''Operation Sidewinder'' (1970) on Broadway. Burns made her screen debut in 1969, appearing in ''Last Summer (1969 film), Last Summer'' as sensitive, conservative Rhoda, receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for '' Gosford Park'' (2001), in which he also appeared. He is also an author of children's novels. Balaban has appeared in the Christopher Guest comedies '' Waiting for Guffman'' (1996), '' Best in Show'' (2000), '' A Mighty Wind'' (2003), and '' For Your Consideration'' (2006) and in the Wes Anderson films '' Moonrise Kingdom'' (2012), '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), '' Isle of Dogs'' (2018) and '' The French Dispatch'' (2021). Balaban's other film roles include the drama '' Midnight Cowboy'' (1969); the science fiction films '' Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977), ''Altered States'' (1980), ''2010'' (1984), the comedy '' Deconstructing Harry'' (1997), and the histori ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ron Hale
Ronald Hale Thigpen (January 2, 1946 – August 27, 2024) was an American actor best known for his role as Roger Coleridge on the ABC soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' for its entire run (1975–1989). He played the recurring role of Mike Corbin, the father of mobster Sonny Corinthos in the ABC soap opera ''General Hospital''. Hale, who had portrayed Corbin from 1995, before announcing his retirement in 2010. Hale died at his home in St. George, South Carolina, on August 27, 2024, at the age of 78. https://deadline.com/2024/10/ron-hale-dies-general-hospital-actor-ryans-hope-1236106428/ Filmography *''Search for Tomorrow'' (1951, TV Series) – Walt Driscoll (1969) *''A Lovely Way To Die'' (1968) *'' Me, Natalie'' (1969) – Stanley Dexter *'' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'' (1973, TV Series) – Jim Abbott *''All the President's Men'' (1976) – Frank Sturgis *''Ryan's Hope'' (1975–1989, TV Series) – Roger Coleridge *'' Matlock'' (1989, TV Series) – Eldon Williams *''MacGyv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deborah Winters
Deborah Winters is an American film and television actress and realtor who has appeared in films such as '' Kotch'', '' The People Next Door'', '' Class of '44'' and the television miniseries '' The Winds of War''. Early life Deborah Winters was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ralph Winters, head of television casting for Universal Studios for 28 years, and actress Penny Edwards. She began her film and television career at age five after moving to New York, where she attended the Professional Children's School. She later commenced professional training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York City. She returned to Los Angeles in 1968, where she studied acting under Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Winters continued working, appearing in commercials for Kinney Shoes, Gulf Oil, Lincoln-Mercury, Quaker Oats, and others. In 1966, she received her first major screen role in the Fred Coe comedy-drama, '' Me, Natalie''. Film and television car ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philip Sterling
Philip Sterling (October 9, 1922 – November 30, 1998) was an American film and television actor. He played Dr. Winston Croft on 28 episodes of the American daytime soap opera '' The Doctors''. He also played Judge Truman Ventnor on 21 episodes in ''Sisters'' and Dr. Simon Weiss on 12 episodes in ''St. Elsewhere''. Sterling guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''The Golden Girls'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Family Ties'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Growing Pains'', ''Night Court'', ''The Wonder Years'', ''The A-Team'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'' and ''Newhart''. He also appeared in a few episodes of ''Barney Miller'', ''L.A. Law'', '' Matlock'', ''Guiding Light'' and ''Hotel''. Death Sterling died in November 1998 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles of complications from myelofibrosis Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is a rare bone marrow blood cancer. It is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm, a group ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |