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Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor and television director. Crenna starred in such motion pictures as '' Made in Paris'' (1966), '' Marooned'' (1969), '' Breakheart Pass'' (1975), '' The Evil'' (1978), '' The Flamingo Kid'' (1984), '' Summer Rental'' (1985) and '' Sabrina'' (1995). His first success came on radio in 1948 as high school student Walter Denton co-starring with Eve Arden and Gale Gordon in the series ''Our Miss Brooks''. Crenna continued with the comedy in its 1952 move into television. He also starred as Luke McCoy in the television series '' The Real McCoys'' (1957–1963). In 1985, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his portrayal of the title role in '' The Rape of Richard Beck'' (1985). He gained further notoriety for his role as Colonel Samuel Richard "Sam" Trautman in the first three '' Rambo'' films (1982–1988). Early life Crenna was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Real McCoys
''The Real McCoys'' is an American sitcom starring Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan. Co-produced by Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's Westgate Company, it was broadcast for six seasons: five by the ABC-TV network, from 1957 to 1962; and a final season by CBS, 1962–1963. Set in California's San Fernando Valley, it was filmed at Desilu studios in Hollywood. Synopsis ''The Real McCoys'' concerns the lives of a family originally from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, from a fictional place named Smokey Corners. They relocated to California to live and work on a farm they inherited from Ben McCoy, brother to patriarch Amos McCoy. The family included Grandpa Amos (Walter Brennan), his grandson Luke ( Richard Crenna), Luke's new wife Kate (Kathleen Nolan), Luke's teenage sister Tallahassie "Hassie" ( Lydia Reed), and her 11-year-old brother "Little Luke" ( Michael Winkelman). The double nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo (born Jeanette Marie Waldo; February 4, 1919 – June 12, 2016) was an American radio and voice actress. In animation, she voiced Judy Jetson in various Hanna-Barbera media, Nancy in ''Shazzan'', Penelope Pitstop, Princess from '' Battle of the Planets'', and Josie in '' Josie and the Pussycats''. On radio, she was the title character in '' Meet Corliss Archer''. Early life Jeanette Marie Waldo was born in Yakima, Washington. Her mother, Jane Althea Blodgett, was a singer trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and her father, Benjamin Franklin Waldo, was, according to Waldo family lore, a distant cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. She had three older siblings, one of whom, Elisabeth, is an authority on pre-Columbian music and an award-winning composer-violinist who appeared in the film '' Song of Mexico'' (1945). Waldo attended the University of Washington, where her performance in a student theatrical garnered her an award and brought her to the attention of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love Lucy
''I Love Lucy'' is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons. The series starred Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class housewife living in New York City, who often concocts plans with her best friends and landlords, Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vance and Frawley), to appear alongside her bandleader husband, Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz), in his nightclub. Lucy is depicted trying numerous schemes to mingle with and be a part of show business. After the series ended in 1957, a modified version of the show continued for three more seasons, with 13 one-hour specials, which ran from 1957 to 1960. It was first known as ''The Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Show,'' and later, in reruns, as ''The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour''. ''I Love Lucy'' became the most-watched show in the United States in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show
''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', sometimes called ''The Burns and Allen Show'', is a half-hour television sitcom broadcast from 1950 to 1958 on CBS. It starred George Burns and Gracie Allen, one of the most enduring acts in entertainment history. Burns and Allen were headliners in vaudeville in the 1920s, and radio stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Their situation comedy TV series received Emmy Award nominations throughout its eight-year run. Production A half-hour TV series broadcast October 12, 1950 – September 22, 1958, on CBS, ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' was initially staged live and broadcast every other Thursday at 8 pm ET. In fall 1952, it became a weekly series filmed on the West Coast. From March 1953 through September 1958, ''The Burns and Allen Show'' aired Mondays at 8 pm ET. The show was an immediate success. Six episodes were produced live from the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Mansfield Theatre in New York, with the stage set as the Burns' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Date With Judy
''A Date with Judy'' is a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which ran from 1941 to 1950. The series was co-created by Jerome Lawrence and Aleen Leslie, and based on Leslie's “One Girl Chorus” column in the Pittsburgh Press. Lawrence left the show in 1943. The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role. Mercedes McCambridge played Judy's girl friend. Dellie Ellis (later known as Joan Lorring) portrayed Judy Foster when the series returned the next summer (June 23 – September 15, 1942). Louise Erickson, then 15, took over the role the following summer (June 30 – September 22, 1943) when the series, with Bristol Myers as its new sponsor, replaced ''The Eddie Cantor Show'' for the summer. Louise Erickson continued in the role of Judy over the next seven years as the series, sponsored by Tums, aired from January 18, 1944 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Favorite Husband
''My Favorite Husband'' was an American radio program and network television show. The original radio show, starring Lucille Ball, shaped into the famous sitcom ''I Love Lucy''. The series was based on the novels ''Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage'' (1940) and ''Outside Eden'' (1945) written by Isabel Scott Rorick, the earlier of which had previously been adapted into the Paramount Pictures feature film '' Are Husbands Necessary?'' (1942), co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field. Radio ''My Favorite Husband'' was broadcast on KFI radio in Hollywood, California, on July 8, 1947, as an episode of the ''Premiere Performance'' series, which provided opportunities for program packagers to air pilots of potential series. John Beal portrayed George Cugat, and Nancy Kelly played his wife. A review in the trade publication ''Billboard'' found the broadcast to be "nothing more than a tired rehash of the now-familiar pattern set by ''Claudia and David'' stage and movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gildersleeve
''The Great Gildersleeve'' was a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy '' Fibber McGee and Molly''. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve, on earlier episodes. ''The Great Gildersleeve'' enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. In ''Fibber McGee and Molly'', Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and antagonist of Fibber McGee. "You're a ''haa-aa-aa-aard'' man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Nolan Richard Crenna The Real McCoys 1960
Kathy is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of Katherine, Kathleen and their related forms. Kathy may refer to: People In sports *Kathy Bald (Born 1963), Canadian freestyle swimmer *Kathy May (Born 1956), American tennis player *Kathy Radzuweit (Born 1980), German volleyball player *Kathy Smallwood-Cook (Born 1960), British Olympic athlete * Kathy Sheehy (Born 1970), American water polo player * Kathy Tough (Born 1969), Canadian volleyball player *Kathy Watt (Born 1964), Australian female cycle racer * Kathy Weston (Born 1958), American middle distance runner *Kathy Foster (basketball) (Born 1960), Australian basketball player In television and film *Kathy Bates (Born 1948), American actress and director *Kathy Burke (Born 1964), British actress *Kathy Chow (1966–2023), Hong Kong actress and singer *Kathy Garver, American television, stage, screen, and voice actress *Kathy Greenwood (Born 1962), Canadian comedian and actress *Kathy Griffin (Born 1960), American stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma (), commonly known as Kappa Sig or KSig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. Kappa Sigma is one of the five largest international Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternities with currently 318 active chapters and colonies in North America. Its Financial endowment, endowment fund, founded in 1919, has donated more than $5 million to undergrads since 1948. In 2012 alone, the Fraternity's endowment fund raised over $1 million in donations. History Traditional founding According to the traditions of the fraternity, Kappa Sigma evolved from an ancient order, known in some accounts as "Kirjath Sepher", said to have been founded between 1395 and 1400 at the University of Bologna.Patterson (1913), p. 597.Baird (1898), p. 143. The story says that the corrupt governor of the city, one-time pirate and later antipope, papal usurper Antipope John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, took advantage of the students at Bologna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgil Middle School
This is a list of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The concept of zones is explained on the LAUSD website. K–12 schools Zoned schools * Elizabeth Learning Center (only K–8 is zoned) ( Cudahy, opened 1927) * James A. Foshay Learning Center, Exposition Park (only 6–12 is zoned; in order to attend Foshay LC for 9–12, a student has to have been enrolled as an 8th grader) (Los Angeles, opened 1924) *Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools (opened 2010) *Vaughn Next Century Learning Center (formerly Vaughn Street Elementary School) Magnet/alternative schools *Banneker Special Education Center (Willowbrook) *Marlton School (Los Angeles, opened 1968) – for deaf and hearing-impaired students *Lake Balboa Magnet (Los Angeles) – currently the only K–12 Magnet School in LAUSD. 4–12 schools ;Zoned schools * Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools (Central Los Angeles New Learning Center 1 Middle School/High School) (opened September 2010, Los Angeles Unified Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
