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Pat McMahon (actor)
John Patrick Michael "Pat" McMahon (born August 20, 1935) is an American actor and broadcaster, best known for his portrayal of numerous characters on ''The Wallace and Ladmo Show'', a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. McMahon is also a longstanding fixture on the Phoenix broadcasting scene, where he has worked at KOY#1230 kHz in Phoenix, KRIZ, KOY, and KTAR (AM), KTAR radio stations—serving as program director, disc jockey, and talk-show host, among other positions. Personal life McMahon was born to vaudeville performers, Jack and Adelaide McMahon—billed as "McMahon and Adelaide" McMahon's birthdate is not listed in most of his online biographical material. However, The Arizona Historymakers Biography lists it as 1933. https://www.historicalleague.org/historymaker-inside.aspx?historymakerid=63 At age five, he joined the act and spent 12 years touring the world. The family eventually settled in Davenport, Iowa, where McMahon atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth () is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. Part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, Leavenworth is located on the west bank of the Missouri River, on the site of Fort Leavenworth, built in 1827. The city became known in History of the United States, American history for its role as a key supply base in the settlement of the American frontier, American West. During the American Civil War, Civil War, many volunteers joined the Union Army from Leavenworth. The city has been notable as the location of several prisons, particularly the United States Disciplinary Barracks and United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,351. History Leavenworth, founded in 1854, was the first city incorporated in the territory of Kansas. The city developed south of Fort Leavenworth, which was established as Cantonment Leavenworth in 1827 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonight Starring Steve Allen
''Tonight Starring Steve Allen'' is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the first installment of ''The Tonight Show''. Hosted by Steve Allen, it aired from September 27, 1954 to January 25, 1957, and was replaced by '' Tonight Starring Jack Paar.'' Allen's run as host of the show lasted for two and a half seasons, beginning in fall 1954 and ending with Allen's departure in January 1957. During its run it originated from the Hudson Theatre in New York City. History Originally a local program airing from 11:20 p.m. to 12 midnight on WNBT New York as ''The Steve Allen Show'', the program was moved to the full NBC network in the Fall of 1954. The first network episode of ''Tonight'' aired on September 27, 1954, and ran for 105 minutes instead of the 60-minute duration of modern talk shows (however, the first fifteen minutes were shown on very few stations). The announcer of the show was Gene Rayburn (who would eventually become a top-game show e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's Colonial empire, colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of . * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa University
Ottawa University (OU) is a private Baptist university with its main campus in Ottawa, Kansas. It also has a second residential campus in Surprise, Arizona, and adult campuses in the Kansas City and Milwaukee metropolitan areas, as well as online. It was founded in 1865 and is affiliated with the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma and the American Baptist Churches USA. The residential campus in Ottawa has a student enrollment of more than 875 students, while the OUAZ campus in Surprise has more than 900. In total, Ottawa University serves more than 4,000 students across all of its campuses and online. History The origins of Ottawa University date back to the 1860s when Baptist missionaries established the First Baptist Church in the area that would eventually develop into Ottawa. It was predominately occupied by Potawatomi and Odawa peoples. Elsewhere, Kansas Baptists had chartered an institute of higher learning that they were planning to call "Roger Williams University" after Roger Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward R
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KAZT-TV
KAZT-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Prescott, Arizona, United States, serving the Phoenix television market as a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated station of The CW. The station is locally owned by the Londen family of Phoenix and managed under a multi-year time brokerage agreement by Nexstar Media Group, which owns 75% of the network. KAZT-TV has studios on Tower Road in Prescott and in the Londen Center on Camelback Road in Phoenix. Its main transmitter is located atop Mingus Mountain (northeast of Prescott). Its signal is relayed through a network of five low-power translators across central and northern Arizona, including Class A station KAZT-CD in Phoenix. A construction permit for channel 7 in Prescott was approved in 1980. The first owner, William H. Sauro, unsuccessfully sought a network affiliation for the station, but by late 1981, he had switched to envisioning it as a springboard for a national network of translators. KUSK debuted on September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of The Wind
''The Other Side of the Wind'' is a 2018 satirical drama film co-written, co-edited, and directed by Orson Welles, and posthumously released after 48 years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar. Intended by Welles to be his American directorial comeback after years spent abroad, the film began shooting in 1970 and resumed on and off until 1976. Welles continued to work intermittently on editing the project into the 1980s, but it became embroiled in financial, legal, and political complications which prevented it from being completed. Despite Welles' death in 1985, several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film. The unreleased results would be called "the Holy Grail of cinema". In 2014, the rights were acquired by Royal Road and the completed project was overseen by Bogdanovich and producer Frank Marshall. The story utilizes a film-within-a-film narrative which follows the last day in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Aged 21, Welles directed high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project in New York City—starting with a celebrated Voodoo Macbeth, 1936 adaptation of ''Macbeth'' with an African-American cast, and ending with the political musical ''The Cradle Will Rock'' in 1937. He and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented productions on Broadway through 1941, including a modern, politically charged ''Caesar (Mercury Theatre), Caesar'' (1937). In 1938, his radio anthology series ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama), a radio adaptation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Condello
Michael Condello (May 6, 1946 – August 17, 1995) was an American rock musician, producer, and songwriter. Early life Mike Condello was born in Brooklyn, New York May 6, 1946 and moved to Phoenix, Arizona when he was 7. By the time he was 14, Condello was already a key player the Phoenix music scene, playing in the Stage 7 Club's house band although four years underage. Before he was 20, he had records issued by several labels using different names. In 1963, Condello was hired by '' The Wallace and Ladmo Show'', hosted by Bill "Wallace" Thompson and Ladimir Kwiatkowski, as bandleader.Condello , Technicolor Web Sound Rock and parodies Condello formed a group called Hub Kapp and the Wheels, fronted by comedian Pat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wallace And Ladmo Show
''The Wallace and Ladmo Show'', also known as ''It's Wallace'' and ''Wallace & Company'', was a children's television show produced by and aired on KPHO-TV (Channel 5) in Phoenix, Arizona, from April 1, 1954, to December 29, 1989. For most of its 35-year run, it was broadcast in the afternoon, Monday through Friday, and usually live. History ''The Wallace and Ladmo Show'' ran more than 35 years—making it one of the longest-running, daily, locally produced children's television shows in American broadcasting. It premiered as ''It's Wallace?'', a vehicle to showcase cartoons for KPHO in January 1954. The show was hosted by Bill Thompson, who created the character of Wallace Snead when he appeared on the ''Golddust Charlie Show'' (also on KPHO). It aired on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6:30 PM. Within a year, Ladimir Kwiatkowski (who had been a cameraman for the station) joined the show as Ladmo, the rubber-faced sidekick to Wallace. In 1960, Pat McMahon joined the cast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladimir Kwiatkowski
Ladimir Kwiatkowski (July 13, 1928 – March 2, 1994), better known as Ladmo, was an American television personality who co-hosted ''The Wallace and Ladmo Show'', a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona. The program featured clowns, cartoons and short comedy skits. Personal life Kwiatkowski was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Walter and Florence Kwiatkowski. His father was a Cleveland police detective. He graduated from high school in 1947. In 1949 Kwiatkowski decided to attend Arizona State College in Tempe. He wanted to be a sports broadcaster. He played baseball with the ASU team and was considered by scouts from the Cleveland Indians. While at ASU, Kwiatkowski met and married his wife Patsy Lou Killough (March 31, 1951). He graduated from ASU with a degree in journalism and decided to try to get a job in television. “If I get a job in television, I’m going to stay. If I can’t get a job in TV, I’m going to take the baseball offer.” Kwiatk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
