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Mitzi Hoag
Margaret Myrtle "Mitzi" Hoag (September 25, 1932 – February 26, 2019) was an American actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in more than 73 different TV shows and movies. Notable among these are recurring roles in '' We'll Get By'', ''Bonanza'', ''Here Come the Brides'', and ''The Partridge Family''. Early life and education Hoag was raised in North Olmsted, Ohio, near Cleveland, where she was born. Her father, John C. Hoag, was a supervisor for the A&P store chain. She graduated from John Marshall High School in 1949. A straight-A student and head majorette of the marching band, she appeared in numerous high school stage productions, already using the nickname "Mitzi". After high school, Hoag attended Shimer College, then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, completing her degree in two years under the radically flexible University of Chicago curriculum of Robert Maynard Hutchins. She chose Shimer for its small classes and the opportunity for horseback riding. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (, ; April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor. He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law. Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime family ''caporegime'' Paulie Cicero (based on real life gangster Paul Vario) in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster film '' Goodfellas'' and as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the second and third seasons of the TV series ''Law & Order''. He also played a variety of father figures, including Juliet's father in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film ''Romeo + Juliet'', as well as guest appearances as the father of Bruce Willis' character on the TV series '' Moonlighting'' and the father of Jeff Garlin's character on '' The Goldbergs''. He was in additional supporting roles in '' A Touch of Class'' (1973), '' Reds'' (1981, as Louis C. Fraina), '' The Rocketeer'' (1991), '' Nixon'' (1995, as Henry Kissinger), and '' The Cooler'' (2003). Usually cast in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy And The Doctor
''Tammy and the Doctor'' is a 1963 Eastmancolor romantic comedy film directed by Harry Keller and starring Sandra Dee as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree and Peter Fonda (in his film debut) as Dr. Mark Cheswick. It is the third of the four Tammy films. Plot Mrs. Call requires surgery in Los Angeles and is accompanied there by her young companion Tammy, a country girl from Mississippi, who later lands a job with the hospital staff. Tammy is attracted to handsome Dr. Mark Cheswick, whose superior, Dr. Bentley, and head nurse Rachel Coleman aren't sure that romance is a good idea. Cast *Sandra Dee as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree *Peter Fonda as Dr. Mark Cheswick *Macdonald Carey as Dr. Wayne Bentley *Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Call *Margaret Lindsay as Rachel Coleman *Reginald Owen as Jason Tripp *Alice Pearce as Millie *Adam West as Dr. Eric Hassler *Joan Marshall as Vera *Stanley Clements as Wally Day *Doodles Weaver as Traction patient *Mitzi Hoag as Pamela Production The film was announced in December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Would I Lie?
''Why Would I Lie?'' is a 1980 American comedy-drama film about a compulsive liar named Cletus ( Treat Williams). The film, which was directed by Larry Peerce and shot in Spokane, Washington, is based on the novel ''The Fabricator'' by Hollis Hodges. Plot Cletus Hayworth, a compulsive liar, is employed as a social worker. He tries to find a home for a young boy named Jorge and, in so doing, falls in love with a social worker, who unbeknownst to everyone is Jorge's mother. Cast * Treat Williams as Cletus Hayworth * Lisa Eichhorn as Kay Lindsey * Gabriel Macht as Jorge * Susan Heldfond as Amy Grower * Anne Byrne as Faith Hayworth * Valerie Curtin as Mrs. Bok * Jocelyn Brando as Mrs. Crumpe * Nicolas Coster as Walter Hayworth * Severn Darden as Dr. Ed Barbour * Sonny Davis as Paul Hayworth * Jane Burkett as Natalie * Kay Cummings as Edith * Mia Bendixsen as Thelma * Ilene Kristen as Waitress * Harriett Gibson as Mary Kalinsky * Cynthia Hoppenfeld as Opel McCarthy * Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hit Lady
''Hit Lady'' is a 1974 made-for-TV film which aired on October 8, 1974. Starring Yvette Mimieux as artist and assassin Angela de Vries, it was written by Mimieux and directed by Tracy Keenan Wynn. Plot A seductive woman shows up at a ranch party and takes a ride with the rancher. But she's actually Angela, an assassin, and he is her latest assignment, a minor drug lord. Returning home after the kill, she resumes her cover as a professional artist. Her photographer boyfriend Doug arrives but their reunion is interrupted by an urgent phone call. The next day, she goes to the penthouse of Roarke, her employer. He demands that she fulfill one more contract hit, on union leader Jeffrey Baine. She wants $125,000 for this, her final job. She goes to Doug's apartment, where they argue about money. She wants to give him money to help launch his photography career, but he refuses. Angela stakes out and researches Baine in order to learn his weaknesses. She goes to a musical recital th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bait (1973 Film)
''The Bait'' is a television film about LAPD Detective Tracy Fleming, who is out to catch a serial killer preying on women in Los Angeles. Filmed in 1971 and released in 1973, it stars Donna Mills. The film was based on former police officer Dorothy Uhnak's first novel, also titled ''The Bait'', which won the MWA's Edgar for Best First Novel. She was reportedly embarrassed over the liberties taken with her work by this film. The film itself was the pilot for an unlaunched weekly TV series. ''The Ledger'', a later book by Ms. Uhnak featuring the same character, NYPD Detective Christie Opara, was adapted into the TV-film ''Get Christie Love!'' It also took liberties with the source material, but was, nonetheless, successfully turned into a TV series the following season. See also * List of American films of 1973 This is a list of American films released in 1973 in film, 1973. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1973, by domestic box office gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play It As It Lays (film)
''Play It as It Lays'' is a 1972 American drama film directed by Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion. The film stars Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, who previously starred together in the 1968 film '' Pretty Poison''. Plot Former model Maria Wyeth, who comes from a Nevada town with a population of 28, is now a successful actress. Unhappily married to, and separated from, temperamental producer Carter Lang, she is also chronically depressed and institutionalized. Reflecting back on what brought her to the asylum, Maria recalls driving around Los Angeles in her yellow Chevrolet Corvette and spending time with her closest friend, B.Z. Mendenhall, an unhappy man who is gay. Maria has a brain-damaged daughter, Kate, who is being kept in a sanitarium at the insistence of Carter, who resents Maria’s visiting the girl so frequently. Maria's secret desire is to live somewhere with Kate and find some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Me Babe
''Cover Me Babe'' is a 1970 drama film about a young filmmaker who is hypercritical about everything including his own work. Almost really doesn't care to get a studio contract. The film was directed by Noel Black, and stars Robert Forster and Sondra Locke. The title song was written by Fred Karlin and Randy Newman, and performed by Bread. A second song by Bread (written by Karlin and band members James Griffin and Robb Royer, titled "So You Say") also appeared on the soundtrack. Plot Tony Hall is a film-school student who does not care to make conventional films. His first avant-garde effort features Melisse, who becomes Tony's lover and moves in with him. Seeking a grant, Tony is steered to Paul, who's a Hollywood agent, but he continues to reject the notion of making movies that conform to the norm. Tony shoots realistic footage of a couple making love in a car, a derelict, a prostitute, even an argument between Melisse and a young student that nearly turns violent. He alie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trip (1967 Film)
''The Trip'' is a 1967 American psychedelic film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman and written by Jack Nicholson. It was shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, the Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California, over three weeks in March and April 1967. Peter Fonda stars as a young man who experiences his first LSD trip. Released during the Summer of Love, ''The Trip'' was very popular, particularly with members of the era’s counterculture. It became one of AIP’s most successful releases and was important in the later development of an even larger cultural touchstone in '' Easy Rider'', which involved many of the same personnel and appealed to the same young demographic. Plot Paul Groves, a television commercial director, takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife. He starts his trip with a "guide", Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico And The Man
''Chico and the Man'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (the Man), the cantankerous owner of a run-down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze (until Prinze's suicide in the third season) as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic young Mexican American who comes in looking for a job. It was the first American television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood. Albertson won an Emmy as best actor in a comedy series in 1976. Conception The series was created by James Komack who produced other successful TV shows such as '' The Courtship of Eddie's Father'' and '' Welcome Back, Kotter''. Comedians Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong (better known as the comedic duo Cheech & Chong) have stated that Komack followed the comedians on tour for three months; Chong wrote in his 2009 book ''Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography'' that Komack bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Alda
Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner and a three-time Tony Award nominee, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the CBS wartime sitcom '' M*A*S*H'' (1972–1983). He also wrote and directed numerous episodes of the series. After starring in the films '' Same Time, Next Year'' (1978), '' California Suite'' (1978), and '' The Seduction of Joe Tynan'' (1979), he made his directorial film debut '' The Four Seasons'' (1981). Alda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's '' The Aviator'' (2004). Other notable film roles include '' Crimes and Misdemeanors'' (1989), '' Manhattan Murder Mystery'' (1993), '' Everyone Says I Love You'' (1996), '' Flirting with Disaster'' (1996), '' Tower Heist'' (2011), '' Bridge of Spies'' (2015), and '' Marriage Story'' (2019). Alda won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV. Founded in 1927, headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City and being part of the " Big Three" television networks, CBS has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and the headquarters of owner Paramount at One Astor Plaza (both also in that city) and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. It is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, after the company's trademark symbol of an eye (which has been in use since October 20, 1951), and also the Tiffany Network, which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Facts Of Life (TV Series)
''The Facts of Life'' is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon that originally aired on NBC for nine seasons from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. Originally a spin-off of ''Diff'rent Strokes'', the series follows Charlotte Rae as Mrs. List of The Facts of Life characters#Edna Garrett, Edna Garrett as she becomes a house mother and later dietitian at the fictional Eastland School, an all-girls boarding school in Peekskill, New York. The first season featured a large ensemble cast that was quickly trimmed, with main co-stars throughout the majority of the series consisting of Lisa Whelchel as List of The Facts of Life characters#Blair Warner, Blair Warner, Kim Fields as List of The Facts of Life characters#Tootie Ramsey, Tootie Ramsey, Mindy Cohn as List of The Facts of Life characters#Natalie Green, Natalie Green, and Nancy McKeon as List of The Facts of Life characters#Jo Polniaczek, Jo Polniaczek. The premise of ''The Facts of Life'' changed numer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
