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Spring Reunion
''Spring Reunion'' is a 1956 American drama film that centers on the fifteen-year reunion of the fictional Carson High School class of 1941. It was the second film produced by Kirk Douglas' film production company Bryna Productions. ''Spring Reunion'' was a screen comeback for actress Betty Hutton, her first film in five years since her departure from Paramount Studios in 1952, after the completion of the musical '' Somebody Loves Me''. Although Hutton's performance was praised by several critics, the film generated little interest and failed at the box office. It was Hutton's last feature film. The film opened at the Astoria Theatre in London, England in late December 1956. Plot Maggie Brewster (Betty Hutton), once voted the most popular girl in her class, has a successful real estate career, but regrets that she never married. When she runs into an old flame at the reunion (Dana Andrews), it looks as if the two might be meant for each other after all. However, Fred's aversion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pirosh
Robert Pirosh (April 1, 1910 – December 25, 1989) was an American screenwriter and film director. In 1951, he was nominated for another Academy Award for the screenplay '' Go for Broke!''. This was his directorial debut. He would go on to write the story for the highly regarded Steve McQueen World War II film '' Hell Is for Heroes'', directed by Don Siegel, believed to be the basis for TV's '' Combat!'' (which he created). He also directed 1954's ''Valley of the Kings'' and 1955's '' The Girl Rush''. Pirosh wrote the episode "The Man From Leadville" for the 1976 CBS western television series '' Sara''. Selected works *'' The Winning Ticket'' (1935) – story *'' A Night at the Opera'' (1935) – writer (uncredited) *'' A Day at the Races'' (1937) – writer *'' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939) – writer (uncredited) *'' The Quarterback'' (1940) – writer *'' The Night of January 16th'' (1941) – writer *'' Song of the Islands'' (1942) – writer *'' Rings on Her Fingers'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Jones (actor)
Gordon Wynnivo Jones (April 5, 1911 – June 20, 1963) was an American character actor, a member of John Wayne's informal acting company best known for playing Lou Costello's TV nemesis "Mike the Cop" and appearing as The Green Hornet in the first of two movie serials based on that old-time radio program. Selected filmography * '' Cimarron'' (1931) - Teamster (uncredited) * '' Wild Girl'' (1932) - Vigilante (uncredited) * ''The Monkey's Paw'' (1933) - Soldier (uncredited) * '' Car 99'' (1935) - Mechanic (uncredited) * '' Let 'Em Have It'' (1935) - Tex * '' Red Salute'' (1935) - Michael (Lefty) Jones * '' Strike Me Pink'' (1936) - Butch Carson * '' Captain Calamity'' (1936) - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Devil's Squadron'' (1936) - Tex * '' Walking on Air'' (1936) - Joe * '' Don't Turn 'Em Loose'' (1936) - Joe Graves * '' Night Waitress'' (1936) - Martin Rhodes * '' We Who Are About to Die'' (1937) - Slim Tolliver * '' They Wanted to Marry'' (1937) - Jim * '' Sea Devils'' (1937) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Shirley Mitchell
Shirley J. Mitchell (November 4, 1919 – November 11, 2013) was an American radio, film, and television actress. Early life Mitchell was born in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Sam Mitchell & Mary Ann Daniels, Jews who emigrated to America to escape the Russian Civil War. She also had a younger brother, Dr. Marvin Mitchell of Watertown, Massachusetts, with whom she was raised in Toledo, Ohio. Career Following a move to Chicago, Mitchell appeared in the network radio broadcast of '' The First Nighter Program'' and played small parts in various soap operas, including '' The Story of Mary Marlin'' and ''The Road of Life''. After she moved to Los Angeles, she played opposite Joan Davis and Jack Haley in ''The Sealtest Village Store''. She also starred as Louella in ''The Life of Riley'' and joined the cast of '' Fibber McGee and Molly'' as Alice Darling in 1943. She also played in Amos & Andy and '' The Charlotte Greenwood Show''. Her most prominent radio role was that of the charism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Haggerty
Don Haggerty (July 3, 1914 – August 19, 1988) was an American actor of film and television. Early life and education Haggerty was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. Before he began appearing in films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University athlete and attended the Experimental Theatre of Vassar College. He served in the United States Army from March 1943 to March 1946 in counterintelligence. '''', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, volume 61, number 119, May 4, 1952, page 42. Bailey, Mike [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Deacon (actor)
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', and ''The Jack Benny Program,'' along with minor roles in films such as '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Birds'' (1963). Career Deacon often portrayed pompous, prissy, and/or imperious figures in film and television. He made appearances on ''The Jack Benny Program'' as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's ''Happy'' as a hotel manager. He made a brief appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's film '' The Birds'' (1963). He played a larger role in '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of the film after its original previews. In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh’s ''The Spirit of St. Louis'', Deacon portrayed the chairm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Kaye
Mary Kaye (née Malia Ka'aihue; January 9, 1924 – February 17, 2007) was an American guitarist and performer. She was active from the 1940s through 1960s. Biography Malia Ka'aihue was born on January 9, 1924, in Detroit, Michigan, to father Johnny Kaaihue. Since she was twelve years old, Mary Kaye performed alongside her brother - Norman Kaye - in her father's band - Johnny Ka’aihue’s Royal Hawaiians. Mary Kaye would create her own band - the Mary Kaye Trio. The Mary Kaye Trio consisted of Mary Kaye, Frank Ross, Norman Kaye, and, for a time, Jules Pursley. The trio's original name was Mary Ka’aihue Trio; however, Norman Kaye pushed for the name to be changed to Mary Kaye Trio since he thought audiences would think the trio only performed Hawaiian music. The Mary Kaye Trio is credited with founding the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas "lounge" phenomenon at the Last Frontier. The trio also performed at the Sahara Las Vegas, Sahara and Tropicana Las Vegas, Tropicana hotels. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gleason
James Austin Gleason (May 23, 1882 – April 12, 1959) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter born in New York City. Gleason often portrayed "tough-talking, world-weary guys with a secret heart-of-gold." Early life Gleason was born in New York City, the son of Mina (née Crolius) and William L. Gleason. Coming from theatrical stock, as a schoolboy he made stage appearances while on holiday. He began earning his living at the age of thirteen, being a messenger boy, printer's devil, assistant in an electrical store and a lift boy. He enlisted in the United States Army at age 16 and served three years in the Philippines. Career On discharge, he began his stage career, later taking it up professionally. He played in London for two years and following his return to the United States, he began in films by writing dialogue for comedies. He wrote a number of plays, several of which were performed on Broadway. He also acted on Broadway, including in a couple of his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Sundstrom
Florence E. "Flo" Sundstrom (February 9, 1918 – June 25, 2001) was an American actress who had an active career in theatre, television, and film. A prominent character actress on Broadway from 1936-1959, she notably created the roles of Bella in the world premiere of Anita Loos's '' Happy Birthday'' in 1946, Bessie in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams's ''The Rose Tattoo'' in 1951, and Mrs. Marie "Fatty" Pert in Ketti Frings's ''Look Homeward, Angel'' in 1957. She made her film debut as Flora in the film adaptation of ''The Rose Tattoo'' in 1955, and thereafter remained active as a character actress in American television and film into the 1990s. She was a main cast member in the 1955–1956 season of ''The Life of Riley'', portraying a new neighbor of the Riley family. Life and career Florence E. Sundstrom was born February 9, 1918, in New York City, the younger of two daughters of U.S. Navy Captain Einar William Sundstrom and Jetta Marie (Osmundsen) Sundstrom. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Janiss
Vivi Janis (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as ''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues'' (1955), ''Man on the Prowl (film), Man on the Prowl'' (1957), and ''First, You Cry'' (1978). Career Vivi Janiss's father was Earl Alexander Jamison, born August 3, 1889, in Nebraska, and died June 17, 1962, in California. He was married to Helen Matilda Jamison née Liljgren. They were traveling theatricals in the Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually settling in California. Vivi was their only child. A native of Nebraska, she was the second wife of actor and comedian Robert Cummings, Bob Cummings, to whom she was wed from 1935 to 1943. The couple met while performing in 1934 in the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' on Broadway theatre, Broadway. In the 1934 Follies, Bob Cummings, performing under the stage name of Brice Hutchins, and Vivi (billed as Vivian Janis) on January 4, 1934 gave the first live performance of the Vernon D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Curtis
Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates; July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the Western television series ''Gunsmoke''. Early years Born the youngest of three boys in Lamar in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado, Curtis lived his first 10 years on a ranch on Muddy Creek in eastern Bent County. In 1926, the family moved to Las Animas, the county seat of Bent County, so that his father, Dan Sullivan Gates, could run for sheriff. The campaign was successful, and Gates served from 1926 to 1931 as Bent County sheriff. Curtis was the quarterback of his Bent County High School football team and played clarinet in the school band. He graduated in 1935. During World War II, Curtis served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945. He attended Colorado College to study medicine, but left after a short time to pursue his musical career. Career Music Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shannon (actor)
Richard Esberry Mangan (July 25, 1920 – December 2, 1989) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 70 films and television programs, and was known for playing the role of Buck Henderson in the 1957 film '' The Tin Star''. In 1959 he appeared on ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' as outlaw Wade who contracts a hitman in season four's "Wanted: Jim Harrie." He later appeared as the cold hearted and oft drunk Deputy Gamer in a 1962 episode of ''Gunsmoke'' entitled "The Gallows." Later in the series, he had a larger role as one of the two title characters, Trapper Tug (partner to Strother Martin's Trapper Billy), in "The Trappers." Also in 1962, he appeared in an episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.'' Partial filmography *'' The Girls of Pleasure Island'' (1953) − Captain McKendry (uncredited) *''Pony Express'' (1953) − Red Barrett *'' The Vanquished'' (1953) − Lieutenant Adams (uncredited) *''Houdini'' (1953) − Miner (uncredited) *''Arrowhead'' (1953) − ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
