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The Wild And The Innocent
''The Wild and the Innocent'' is a 1959 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jack Sher and starring Audie Murphy and Sandra Dee, two inexperienced young people who get into trouble when they visit a town for the very first time. The film was the final Universal-International film shot in CinemaScope. Plot Shy and naive mountain trapper Yancy (Audie Murphy) travels through Wyoming with his uncle and his Indian wife. After Uncle Lije (George Mitchell) is injured by a bear, Yancy is sent to trade their beaver pelts for money and supplies. When he arrives at the trading post, he finds it has been burnt down by an Indian who was sold moonshine by a lazy sneak thief, Ben Stocker (Strother Martin). The trading post owner tells Yancy that he will have to ride two more days to Casper, Wyoming, the nearest town to trade his furs. Stocker tries to trade his oldest daughter Rosalie (Sandra Dee) to Yancy for some furs, but is rebuffed. The next day, Yancy finds that Rosalie has run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reynold Brown
William Reynold Brown (October 18, 1917 – August 24, 1991) was an American Realism (arts), realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters. He was also briefly active as a comics artist. Biography He attended Alhambra High School (Alhambra, California), Alhambra High School and refined his drawing under his teacher Lester Bonar. A talented artist, Brown met cartoonist Hal Forrest around 1936-37. Forrest hired Brown to ink (uncredited) Forrest's comic strip ''Tailspin Tommy''. Extensive discussion of the comic strip. Norman Rockwell's sister was a teacher at Alhambra High, and Brown later met Rockwell who advised him to leave cartooning if he wanted to be an illustrator. Brown subsequently won a scholarship to the Otis Art Institute. During World War II he worked as a technical artist at North American Aviation. There he met his wife, fellow artist Mary Louise Tejeda. Following the war Brown drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as ''Argosy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostitution In The United States
Prostitution is illegal in every US state except Nevada, where licensed brothels are permitted in some counties, and Maine, where selling sex is decriminalized but buying sex is illegal. Prostitution nonetheless occurs in all states. A 2008 report by the National Institute of Justice estimated that 15–20 percent of men in the US have paid for sex. The Tenth Amendment does not grant the federal government the power to regulate commercial sex, therefore it is exclusively the domain of the states, except as it pertains to interstate commerce, which Congress may regulate with laws such as the Mann Act. In most states, prostitution is considered a misdemeanor in the category of public-order crime. Prostitution was once considered a vagrancy crime. Nevada is the only state which allows legal prostitution in the form of regulated brothels, the terms of which are stipulated in the ''Nevada Revised Statutes''. As of 2023, there were 19 licensed brothels in Nevada. Of the ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFI Catalog Of Feature Films
The ''AFI Catalog of Feature Films'', also known as the ''AFI Catalog'', is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present. It began as a series of hardcover books known as ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures'', and subsequently became an exclusively online film database. Each entry in the catalog typically includes the film's title, physical description, production and distribution companies, production and release dates, cast and production credits, a plot summary, song titles, and notes on the film's history. The films are indexed by personal credits, production and distribution companies, year of release, and major and minor plot subjects. To qualify for the "Feature Films" volumes, a film must have been commercially produced either on American soil or by an American company. In accordance with the Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bear Lake, California
Big Bear Lake is a city in San Bernardino County, California, located in the San Bernardino Mountains along the south shore of Big Bear Lake, and surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest. The city is about northeast of the city of San Bernardino, California, San Bernardino, and immediately west of the Unincorporated area, unincorporated town of Big Bear City, California, Big Bear City. The population was approximately 5,046 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. However, as a popular year-round resort destination, the actual number of people staying in or visiting the greater Big Bear Valley area regularly surges to over 100,000 during many weekends of the year. History Big Bear Lake was inhabited by the indigenous Serrano people for over 2,000 years before it was explored by Benjamin Davis Wilson, Benjamin Wilson and his party. Once populated by only the natives and the California grizzly bear, grizzly bears, from which the area received its name, the populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karyn Kupcinet
Karyn Kupcinet (born Roberta Lynn Kupcinet; March 6, 1941 – November 28, 1963) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was the daughter of Chicago newspaper columnist and television personality Irv Kupcinet, and the sister of television director and producer Jerry Kupcinet. Kupcinet had a brief acting career during the early 1960s. Six days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, her body was found at her home in West Hollywood, California. With her death officially ruled an unsolved homicide, and occurring so close to the assassination, her name became one of hundreds added to the multiplicity of theories that emerged after the assassination. Kupcinet's father publicly dismissed the theories linking his daughter to the president's death. In 1992, after NBC's ''Today'' program briefly referred via a caption to her alleged connection to the assassination, Irv Kupcinet described the broadcast as "an atrocious outrage" and "calumny". Karyn Kupcinet's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Roberts (director)
Stephen Roberts (23 November 1895 – 17 July 1936) was an American film director. He directed more than 100 films from 1923 to 1936. He was born in Summersville, West Virginia, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. Selected filmography * ''Cheer Up'' (1924) with Cliff Bowes, Virginia Vance, Eddie Boland * ''The Radio Bug'' (1926) short comedy filmed in both silent and Phonofilm Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s. In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofi ... versions * '' Listen Lena'' (1927) * '' Lady and Gent'' (1932) * '' If I Had a Million'' (1932) * '' The Story of Temple Drake'' (1933) * '' The Trumpet Blows'' (1934) * '' Romance in Manhattan'' (1935) * '' Star of Midnight'' 1935, RKO. Source: ''Graham Greene on Film'', Simon and Schuster 1972, p. 14. * '' The Ex-Mrs. Bradfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barboura Morris
Barboura Morris (born Barboura O'Neill; October 22, 1932 – October 23, 1975) was an American actress and writer. She is most remembered for her roles in American International Pictures productions. Early years Morris was born Barboura O'Neill in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA, where she won the Best Actress awards two times. Shortly after, she joined the Stumptown Players, a 16-person stock theater company in Guerneville which was composed of fellow California university undergraduates and alumni. Career Acting Fellow Stumptown player Roger Corman gave Morris a leading role in the cult classic '' Sorority Girl'' (1957). She appeared in many other low-budget movies for Corman, such as ''The Wasp Woman'' and ''A Bucket of Blood''. Morris was often involved in his work with American International Productions. Notably, she starred opposite Charles Bronson in 1958's '' Machine-Gun Kelly'' and costarred with Peter Fonda in 1967's '' The Trip'', written by Jack Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wolff (actor)
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 11, 1928 – December 12, 1971) was an American actor whose film career began with roles in five 1958–61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after many appearances in European-made films, most of which were lensed in Italy. Early life Wolff was born in San Francisco, California, the son of a San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area physician. Both parents were of German descent. The elder Wolff, a political and social maverick, encouraged young Frank to follow an unconventional path. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied acting and stagecraft, wrote and directed plays and befriended another actor/director, Monte Hellman. Between 1957 and 1961, he appeared in nearly 20 episodes of TV series and feature films, a few of which fit into the horror film, horror/science fiction genre. Career With Roger Corman Wolff had bit roles in his first two films, Roger Corman's ''I Mobster'' and ''The Wasp Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edson Stroll
Edson Stroll (January 6, 1929 – July 18, 2011) was an American actor who appeared in over 20 film and television programs beginning in 1958. Career Born in Chicago to Charles Stroll and Estelle Rose Stroll in a Jewish family, Stroll enlisted in the United States Navy in the late 1940s then began his career as a bodybuilder in the 1950s. He studied acting and singing at the American Theater Wing in New York City and received a Fulbright Scholarship for voice performance, followed by an artist's contract for performance and advance study by the National Broadcasting Company He did a variety of stage work and from 1958 onwards he had bit parts on television shows such as ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' and '' Sea Hunt''. He appeared in two episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', " Eye of the Beholder" (1960) and " The Trade-Ins" (1962). He played Dynamite in the Elvis Presley film '' G.I. Blues'' (1960). He then landed a steady role on ''McHale's Navy'' as Virgil Edwards. Fans of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Sheppard
James Patrick Sheppard (born May 8, 1961) is an American musician. He was the bassist and founding member of the progressive metal band, Nevermore, and its predecessor, Sanctuary.Mustica, Giorgio.An Interview with Jeff Loomis: Cooling The Burn, The Aquarian Weekly, May 1, 2013.Dick, Chris.Q&A: Lenny Rutledge Soldiers Sanctuary Onward, Decibel magazine, December 17, 2018. He and singer Warrel Dane are certified chefs, and formerly owned an Italian restaurant in Seattle. In 2020 James married Brazilian Priscila Sheppard. Sheppard underwent an operation in 2011 to remove a benign brain tumour. In 2019, after the death of Warrel Dane, Sheppard started a musical project called Dead Heart Collective, in which he plays the guitar. Discography Sanctuary * '' Refuge Denied'' (1987) * '' Into the Mirror Black'' (1989) * '' Into the Mirror Live'' (1991) * '' The Year the Sun Died'' (2014) Nevermore *''Nevermore Nevermore is an American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Adams
Lillian Adams (May 13, 1922 – May 25, 2011) was an American actress who appeared in over 100 film and television roles. Born in Chicago, Adams appeared in movies such as '' Private Benjamin'' and '' Bruce Almighty'' as well as television series such as '' Gomer Pyle: USMC'', ''The Twilight Zone'', '' Archie Bunker's Place'', '' Married... with Children'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Frasier'', and ''Modern Family''. Her last film project was an independent film titled ''At What Price''. Adams also appeared in commercials for CVS Pharmacy as the mascot Super Saver Lillian. On May 25, 2011, Adams died of heart failure in Woodland Hills, California, aged 89. Selected filmography * ''Crisis'' (1950) as Nurse * ''Whirlybirds'' (1958, TV Series) as Drugstore Clerk * '' The Wild and the Innocent'' (1959) as Kiri Hawks * '' Tormented'' (1960) as Mrs. Ellis * ''A Majority of One'' (1961) as Mrs. Stein * '' Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man'' (1962) as Indian Woman * '' The Outer Limits' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Harford
Betty Harford (born January 28, 1927) is an American actress. She appeared in numerous classic television shows such as ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', '' The Paper Chase'' and ''Dynasty''. Career Harford appeared in numerous John Houseman theatrical productions and in the High Valley Theater of Iris Tree. She appeared in episodes of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Dr. Kildare'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Big Valley'' and '' The Paper Chase''. In the 1959 film '' The Wild and the Innocent'', Harford was Ms. Forbes, caring after Sandra Dee's character. Christopher Isherwood found her acting in the 1965 movie ''Inside Daisy Clover'', where she played the sister, Gloria, of Natalie Wood's lead character, as "too much bigger than life, like an actress out of the Moscow Art Theatre." Harford had the recurring role of cook Hilda Gunnerson in the soap opera ''Dynasty'', appearing in the series throughout its nine-year run from 1981 to 1989, and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
