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Spellbound (1962 TV Play)
"Spellbound" is a 1962 American television play which adapted the 1945 feature film of the same name. Cast *Hugh O'Brian *Oscar Homolka * Paul McGrath *Maureen O'Hara Maureen O'Hara (; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate b ... Reception ''Variety'' claimed the adaptation "was so abbreviated that the keen character development and surprise of the Hecht screenplay were lost." ''Newsday'' called it "an unsatisfactory shadow of the earlier film." References External links * {{Sumner Locke Elliott Works by Sumner Locke Elliott 1962 television plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre '62
''Theatre '62'' is an American dramatic anthology series produced by Fred Coe. Seven hour-long episodes aired on the National Broadcasting Company during the 1961–62 season. Its episodes were abridged adaptations of popular feature films produced by David O. Selznick. Production ''Theatre '62'' was announced as a series that would present eight hour-long adaptions of feature films produced by David O. Selznick. The TV plays were to be presented monthly beginning in October 1961, but the last of the announced episodes, ''Portrait of Jennie'', was not produced. Sumner Locke Elliott adapted "Notorious" and " Spellbound" for the series; Robert Goldman adapted "The Spiral Staircase" and "The Paradine Case". Directors included Paul Bogart, Fielder Cook and Boris Sagal Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 – May 22, 1981) was an American television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bogart
Paul Bogart (né Bogoff; November 13, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an Americans, American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series 'Way Out (TV series), '''Way Out'' in 1961, ''Coronet Blue'' in 1967, ''Get Smart'', ''The Dumplings (TV series), The Dumplings'' in 1976, ''All In The Family'' from 1975 to 1979, ''Mama Malone'' in 1982 (aired in 1984), and four episodes of the first season of ''The Golden Girls'' in 1985. Among his films are ''Oh, God! You Devil'', ''Torch Song Trilogy (film), Torch Song Trilogy'', ''Halls of Anger'', ''Marlowe (1969 film), Marlowe'', ''Skin Game'' (both starring James Garner), and ''Class of '44''. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards during his long career, from sixteen nominations. In 1991, he was awarded the ''French Festival Internationelle Programmes Audiovisuelle'' at the Cannes Film Festival. Biography Paul Bogart was born on November 13, 1919, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, as Paul Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, '' Careful, He Might Hear You''. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. World War II Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942 but was not posted overseas, working as a clerk in Australia. He used those experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, '' Rusty Bugles''. In October 1948, it achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the New South Wales Chief Secretary's Office. However, the place of ''Rusty Bugles'' in the history of Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. After graduating from high school in 1910, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops." In the 1910s and 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, ''The Front Page'', became a Broadway hit. The ''Dictionary of Literary Biography – American Screenwriters'' calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures". Hech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spellbound (1945 Film)
''Spellbound'' is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel '' The House of Dr. Edwardes'' by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Filming of ''Spellbound'' took place in the summer of 1944 in Vermont, Utah, and Los Angeles. ''Spellbound'' was released theatrically in New York City on Halloween 1945, after which its U.S. release expanded on December 28, 1945. The film received favorable reviews from critics and was a major box-office success, grossing $6.4 million in the United States, and breaking ticket sales records in London. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Best Director, and won in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC Western (genre), Western television series ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' (1955–1961) and the National Broadcasting Company, NBC action television series ''Search (American TV series), Search'' (1972–1973). His notable films included the adaptation of Agatha Christie's ''Ten Little Indians (1965 film), Ten Little Indians'' (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, ''The Shootist'' (1976). He created the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, (HOBY) a nonprofit youth leadership-development program for high-school scholars. It has sponsored more than 500,000 students since O'Brian founded the program in 1958, following an extended visit with physician and theologian Albert Schweitzer. Life and career Early life and military service O'Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (12 August 1898 – 27 January 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and the United States. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for which he was in regular demand. By the age of 30, he had appeared in more than 400 plays; his film career covered at least 100 films and TV shows. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' I Remember Mama'' (1948). Career After serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, Homolka attended the Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, the city of his birth, and began his career on the Austrian stage. In 1924 he played Mortimer in the premiere of Brecht's play ''The Life of Edward II of England'' at the Munich Kammerspiele, and from 1925 in Berlin where he worked under Max Reinhardt. Other stage plays in which Homolka performed during this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGrath (actor)
Paul McGrath (April 11, 1904 – April 13, 1978) was an American film, television, Broadway, and radio actor best known for his radio appearances in the 1940s and 1950s. Early years Born in Chicago, McGrath was educated in public schools in New York, including Evander Childs High School. He attended Carnegie Tech and studied engineering before developing an interest in drama. He left in 1924 to become an actor. Career McGrath's professional debut came as a member of a touring company of '' The First Year''. On radio, McGrath was a regular on '' Crime Doctor'' and on the soap operas '' Big Sister'' and ''Young Doctor Malone''. He played the host on '' Inner Sanctum Mystery'' on radio and on a syndicated TV version of the program. His other work on television included appearances on the dramas ''Armstrong Circle Theatre'', ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', and '' The United States Steel Hour.'' He also was featured on TV serials, including ''The Edge of Night'', '' The Doctors' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. She worked with director John Ford and long-time friend John Wayne on numerous projects. O'Hara was born into a Catholic family and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She aspired to become an actress from a very young age. She trained with the Rathmines Theatre Company from the age of 10 and at the Abbey Theatre from the age of 14. She was given a screen test, which was deemed unsatisfactory, but Charles Laughton saw potential in her and arranged for her to co-star with him in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Jamaica Inn'' in 1939. Laughton insisted that she change her surname from FitzSimons against her wishes, and she became "O'Hara". She moved to Hollywood the same year to appear with him in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works By Sumner Locke Elliott
Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * John D. Works (1847–1928), California senator and judge * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album), a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album from 1972 * ''Works'', a Status Quo album from 1983 * ''Works'', a John Abercrombie album from 1991 * ''Works'', a Pat Metheny album from 1994 * ''Works'', an Alan Parson Project album from 2002 * ''Works Volume 1'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * ''Works Volume 2'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * '' The Works'', a 1984 Queen album Other uses *Good works, a topic in Christian theology * Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft * IBM Works, an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system * Mount Works, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * The Works (other) * Work (other) Work may refer to: * Work ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
