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The Desert Song (Max Liebman Presents)
"The Desert Song" is the fifteenth episode of the American television musical variety series ''Max Liebman Presents'', adapted from the 1926 operetta ''The Desert Song'', which was based on a true event - an uprising of the Riff tribes against French colonial rule in Morocco in 1925. The music for the operetta was composed by Sigmund Romberg. The book and the lyrics were written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab. Writers for the television adaptation were William Friedberg, Will Glickman and Neil Simon. First telecast live in the United States on May 7, 1955, on NBC. The conductor for the production was Charles Sanford - while the choreographer for all of the dances and musical segments was Rod Alexander. Due to the time constraints for the live telecast, the television version had to be abridged and adapted and it is therefore slightly different from the original operetta. NBC broadcast the live telecast two years after the film version of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Conte (actor)
John Conte (September 15, 1915 – September 4, 2006) was an American stage, film and TV actor, and television station owner. Early years Conte was born in Palmer, Massachusetts. His mother was Italian, and his father was French-Italian. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, when John was 5. While a student at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, Conte focused on classes in drama and for three years was the school's top entrant in Shakespearian competition. After graduating, he joined the Pasadena Playhouse and "took every role offered to him juvenile, leading man, character." He later got jobs as a radio actor and singer. Radio Conte entered broadcasting with a job at KFAC in Los Angeles. Two years later, he had become a network announcer. One of his first regular roles was on ''The Grape Nuts Program'' (1937–1938) with George Burns and Gracie Allen. Conte was host for ''Screen Test'' and master of ceremonies for the Maxwell House program that featured Fanny Brice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Liebman Presents
''Max Liebman Presents'', aka ''Max Liebman Spectaculars'', is an American television musical variety series, presented monthly in a 90-minute format on NBC, beginning September 12, 1954, and ending on June 6, 1956. Throughout the show's run, episodes were broadcast on Saturdays beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. In the second season, the same title was also used for a show with a different format on Sundays beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET. Overview Saturday episodes consisted mainly of musical comedies, the first of which was '' Satins and Spurs''. They included '' Babes in Toyland'', '' Best Foot Forward'', '' Lady in the Dark'', and ''The Merry Widow''. Featured performers included John Conte, Robert Cummings, Dennis Day, Dave Garroway, Edward Everett Horton, Ann Jeffreys, Jack E. Leonard, and Marilyn Maxwell. Episodes on Sundays were musical revues. Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander formed a dance team that appeared regularly, and Charles Sanford's orchestra often provided musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Schwab
Laurence Schwab (1893 – May 29, 1951) was an American theater and film producer, writer, and director. He was born in Boston and attended Harvard University. His first success was as co-producer of '' The Gingham Girl'' (1922). He co-authored and produced numerous productions in the 1920s and 1930s. Several of his works were adapted to film. Biography Laurence Schwab was born in Boston, and was educated at Harvard. He died in Southampton, New York on May 29, 1951. Theater Writer *''Queen High'' (1926), adapted from Edward Peple's 1914 farce *'' Good News'' (1927) *''The New Moon'' (1927), co-wrote *'' Follow Thru'' (1930), co-wrote *'' Take a Chance'' (1932), co-wrote Producer *''America's Sweetheart'' (1931) Filmography Writer *'' Follow Thru'' (1930), adaptation of his play, he also produced *'' Good News'' based on musical he co-wrote *''Queen High'' (1930), adaptatiom of his play *''I Won't Play'' (1944) *'' Good News'' adapted from a play he co-wrote *''The Desert Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University Library
The Stanford University Libraries (SUL), formerly known as "Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources" ("SULAIR"), is the library system of Stanford University in California. It encompasses more than 24 libraries in all. Several academic departments and some residences also have their own libraries. Major libraries The main library in the SU library system is Green Library, which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. Lathrop Library is a 24-hour library which holds various student-accessible media resources, particularly those intended for undergraduates. The Hoover Institution Library and Archives is an archive and research center largely focused on documents of 20th century history. The Hoover Institution Library and Archives (not to be confused with the Hoover Institution think tank) is a part of SUL but has its own board of overseers. History The earliest library at Stanford was in the northeast corner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Music
Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users can select music to stream to their device on-demand, or listen to existing playlists. The service also includes the sister internet radio stations Apple Music 1, Apple Music Hits, Apple Music Country, Apple Música Uno, Apple Music Club, and Apple Music Chill which are broadcast live to over 200 countries 24 hours a day. The service was announced on June8, 2015, and launched on June30, 2015. New subscribers get a one-month free or six months free trial with the purchase of select products before the service requires a monthly subscription. Originally strictly a music service, Apple Music began expanding into video in 2016. Executive Jimmy Iovine has stated that the intention for the service is to become a "cultural platform", and Apple reportedly wants the service to be a "one-stop shop for pop culture". The company is actively investing heavily in the production and purchasing of video cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinescope
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s for the preservation, re-broadcasting, and sale of television programs before the introduction of quadruplex videotape, which from 1956 eventually superseded the use of kinescopes for all of these purposes. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to videotape. Typically, the term can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. Film recorders are similar, but record source material from a computer system instead of a television broadcast. A telecine is the inverse device, used to show film directly on television. The term originally refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pas De Deux
In ballet, a ( French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. The ''pas de deux'' is characteristic of classical ballet and can be found in many well-known ballets, including ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''Swan Lake'', and '' Giselle''. It is most often performed by a male and a female (a ''danseur'' and a ''ballerina'') though there are exceptions, such as in the film '' White Nights'', in which a ''pas de deux'' is performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. ''Grand pas de deux'' A ''grand pas de deux'' is a structured ''pas de deux'' that typically has five parts, consisting of an ''entrée'' (introduction), an ''adagio'', two variations (a solo for each dancer), and a ''coda'' (conclusion). It is effectively a suite of dances that share a common theme, often symbolic of a love story or the partnership inherent in love, with the dancers portraying expressions of affectionate feelings an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman (December 28, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American film and television actor. According to one obituary, "his roles ranged from romantic lead to worldly, wisecracking lout in his most famous years". Career Born in Cincinnati, Bowman dropped out of the University of Cincinnati Law School to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was spotted by a Paramount Pictures agent and went to Hollywood in 1934, but was not used at first. Instead he worked as a radio singer and appeared in stock plays including ''The Old Lady Shows His Medals''. Bowman eventually made his film debut in '' I Met Him in Paris'' (1937) for Paramount. He worked at that studio for a while, then RKO, before moving to MGM where he appeared in ''Bataan'' (1943) a film that follows the fates of a group of men charged with destroying a bridge during the doomed defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese. The lack of leading men in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Conde (born 1946), CEO of Ferrari and Aston Martin
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Felisa is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: ;given name: *Felisa Batacan, Filipino journalist and writer of crime and mystery fiction *Felisa Miceli (born 1952), Argentine economist *Felisa Núñez Cubero (1924-2017), Spanish physicist *Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), Puerto Rican politician *Felisa Wolfe-Simon, American microbial geobiologist and biogeochemist ;surname: *Amedeo Felisa Amedeo Felisa (born 1946) is an Italian businessman and automotive industry executive. He was chief executive (CEO) of Aston Martin from May 2022 to September 2024 and CEO of Ferrari from 2008 to 2016. Felisa was born in Milan in 1946. He earned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Alexander (choreographer/dancer)
''Green Bullfrog'' is a blues album recorded by an ad hoc band and produced by Derek Lawrence. The bulk of the album was recorded over two sessions at De Lane Lea Studios, London in 1970, with later string and brass overdubs. It was originally released in 1971, with reissues in 1980 and 1991. The album listed pseudonyms in the credits for contractual reasons and was commercially unsuccessful. The musicians were eventually confirmed as including Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice, Procol Harum's Matthew Fisher, Chas & Dave's Chas Hodges and session guitarists Albert Lee and Big Jim Sullivan. Background ''Green Bullfrog'' was the idea of producer Derek Lawrence, who assembled a group of musicians with whom he had worked in the 1960s. Guitarist Albert Lee had been working with Lawrence as a session player, and the original idea had been to record with former Screaming Lord Sutch bassist Tony Dangerfield. However, the sessions did not work out, so the pair decided to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambi Linn
Bambi Linn (born Bambina Aennchen Linnemeier; April 26, 1926) is an American retired dancer, choreographer and actress. Born to Henry William Linnemeier (a surveyor and accountant) and Mary "Mimi" (Tweer) Linnemeier in 1926, Bambi Linn trained extensively with noted choreographer Agnes de Mille. At the age of 17, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of ''Oklahoma!'' (1943). With the death of actor George S. Irving, she became the last surviving cast member of the original opening night cast of ''Oklahoma!'' De Mille used her again in ''Carousel'' (1945) as Louise, the daughter who gets slapped causing her father's return to purgatory, for which she earned a Theatre World Award. Linn repeated the role in the 1957 revival at City Center. Her other Broadway credits include the title role in ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1947) and Blanche in ''I Can Get It for You Wholesale'' (1962). Linn, who was a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl William Sauvain
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The title originates in the Old English word , meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl''. After the Norman Conquest, it became the equivalent of the continental count. In Scotland, it assimilated the concept of mormaer. Since the 1960s, earldoms have typically been created only for members of the royal family. The last non-royal earldom, Earl of Stockton, was created in 1984 for Harold Macmillan, prime minister from 1957 to 1963. Alternative names for the rank equivalent to "earl" or "count" in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as the ''hakushaku'' (伯爵) of the post-restoration Japanese Imperial era. Etymology In the 7th century, the common Old English terms for no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
