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Victoria Carroll
Victoria Carroll (or Victoria Carrol-Bell; born Mary Carol Lee Ford on January 21, 1941) is an American actress, dancer and artist. Best known as Marie Massey in ''Alice'' (1978-1984). Early life Born Mary Carol Lee Ford on January 21, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, the third child of Oscar Ford, a vaudeville actor turned publicity agent and Lillian Ford, an actress. During the late 1940s, the whole family (along with her two older brothers) performed together on stage with their daughter as "The World's Youngest Mind Reader". Career Early career In 1941, her family took her to audition for the role of Greer Garson's daughter in MGM's ''Blossoms in the Dust''. Shortly after finishing high school, she began supporting herself as a painter with an art scholarship but also took several dance classes. This led to an audition for Don Arden, who hired her to dance in his play. Mary Carol Lee started working professionally as a dancer in Broadway shows. Film career By 1964, her dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mix of influences across color lines during a civil rights movement, transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and Cultural impact of Elvis Presley#Danger to American culture, initial controversy. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi; his family relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was 13. He began his music career in 1954 at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on guitar and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, Backbeat (music), backbeat-driven fusion of country music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beverly Hillbillies
''The Beverly Hillbillies'' is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri who move to posh Beverly Hills, California after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: '' Petticoat Junction'' and its spin-off '' Green Acres'', which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city model of ''The Beverly Hillbillies''. ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, ranking as the No.1 series of the year during its first two seasons, with 16 episodes that still remain among the 100 most-watched television episodes in American history. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jack Benny Program
''The Jack Benny Program'', starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio, and from 1950 to 1965 on television. It won numerous awards, including the 1959 and 1961 Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series, and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. Throughout his career, Jack Benny played the same character: A pompous, vain, and stingy man who played the violin badly but was convinced of his own talent. Although technically the star of his show, Benny was constantly the butt of jokes from his cast members, including Mary Livingstone (Sayde Marks Benny, his real-life wife); Phil Harris, his band leader; Kenny Baker or Dennis Day, his tenors; Don Wilson, his portly announcer; and Rochester Van Jones ( Eddie Anderson), his African American valet. As radio historian John Dunning explains, "Unlike Bob Hope, Jack Benny didn't ''tell'' jokes. On his show, Jack ''was' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McHale's Navy
''McHale's Navy'' is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from a one-hour drama titled "Seven Against the Sea", broadcast on April 3, 1962, as part of the ''Alcoa Premiere'' anthology series. The ABC series spawned three feature films: ''McHale's Navy (1964 film), McHale's Navy'' (1964); a sequel, ''McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force'' (1965); and a 1997 McHale's Navy (1997 film), sequel-remake of the original series. "Seven Against the Sea" (1962) Academy Award–winning dramatic actor Ernest Borgnine first appeared as Quinton McHale in an hour-long One shot (film), one-shot PT boat drama called "Seven Against the Sea", which aired as an episode of ''Alcoa Premiere'' in 1962, an ABC dramatic anthology also known as ''Fred Astaire's Premiere Theatre'' and hosted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandemonium (1982 Film)
''Pandemonium'' is a 1982 American parody slasher film. It was directed by Alfred Sole and features an ensemble cast including Tom Smothers, Eileen Brennan, Phil Hartman, Tab Hunter, Judge Reinhold, Carol Kane, David Lander, Eve Arden, and Paul Reubens. The film went into production under the working title of ''Thursday the 12th''. The film was the last feature in which Eve Arden appeared and also the last feature film Sole directed in his career. The film is set in Indiana, focusing on a fictional cheerleading camp. The camp closed in 1963, following the murders of several cheerleaders at an affiliated university. Nearly twenty years later, a veteran cheerleader re-opens the camp and ignores warnings about a supposed curse on the camp. The killings soon start again. The killer turns out to be a local celebrity, who never fulfilled his dreams of becoming a cheerleader. ''Pandemonium'' was released in theatres on April 2, 1982. Plot In the fictional town of It Had To Be, Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Billion Dollar Hobo
''The Billion Dollar Hobo'' is a 1977 American comedy film starring Tim Conway and Will Geer (in his last role). Plot Conway is Vernon Praiseworthy, only heir to his uncle's fortune, who faced poverty and misfortune during the Great Depression but managed to build up his riches despite these hardships. To become eligible for the inheritance, Vernon must suffer as his uncle did by becoming a migrant hobo for a time. Soon after, Vernon and the dog sent to protect him are caught up in a dognapping scheme. Cast * Tim Conway as Vernon Praiseworthy * Will Geer as Choo Choo Trayne * Eric Weston as Steve * Sydney Lassick as Mitchell * John Myhers as Leonard Cox * Frank Sivero as Ernie * Sharon Clark as Jen * Victoria Carroll as Barbara Henderson * Sheela Tessler as Rita * Mickey Morton as Kotch * Roger Barkley as Guard#2 * Al Lohman as Guard#1 (as Al Loehman) * Kaye Elhardt as Miss Evans * London the Wonder Dog as Bo Production notes * Jimmie Rodgers sang the song in the film ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kentucky Fried Movie
''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' is a 1977 American independent black comedy sketch film, produced by Kim Jorgensen, Larry Kostroff, and Robert K. Weiss, and directed by John Landis. Among the numerous star cameos are George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens. According to writer David Zucker on the DVD commentary track, David Letterman auditioned for the role of the newscaster, but was not selected. The film also features many former members of The Groundlings and The Second City. The "feature presentation" portion of the film stars Evan C. Kim and '' hapkido'' grand master Bong Soo Han. ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' launched the careers of the Zucker brothers, Abrahams and Landis. Landis was recommended to direct '' National Lampoon's Animal House'' in 1978 based on his work with ''The Kentucky Fried Movie''. The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hustle (1975 Film)
''Hustle'' is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve. Plot Police Lieutenant Phil Gaines and Nicole Britton, high-priced call girl and the lieutenant’s girlfriend, have their weekend plans dashed when Gaines receives a call that a dead woman was found on the beach. Before he leaves, the two plan a romantic group of field trip to Rome, Italy. At the police precinct, Gaines and his partner, Sergeant Louis Belgrave, meet Marty and Paula Hollinger, and ask Marty to view the deceased to see if it is his daughter, Gloria. Upon seeing Gloria’s naked lifeless body, Marty punches Gaines in the face, screaming they should have covered her up. Sergeant Belgrave insists they charge Marty with assault, but Gaines apologizes for not covering the girl. Los Angeles Police Department, Gaines enters an interrogation room to find Belgrave and another police officer beating a confession out of an Albino man. Infu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmare In Wax
''Nightmare in Wax'' is a 1969 horror film. Cameron Mitchell plays Vincent Renard, a former film special effects artist who is disfigured by Max Block, the head of Paragon Pictures, and also a rival for the affections of a woman ( Anne Helm). Leaving the film industry, Vince becomes a recluse and opens a wax museum. Within a few months, four popular Paragon stars disappear. Wax figures of the missing stars soon feature as wax models in the museum and the police become suspicious. Plot Vincent Renard has liquor thrown in his face while lighting a cigarette during a party. Despite diving into the pool half his face is disfigured. As a result he becomes recluse and opens a wax museum. As various Paragon stars disappear new figures appear in his museum. It turns out that he has taken the theory of a Doctor Zerkai of using truth serum and a compound called Nerving will put a person into suspend animation for centuries and put it into practice to fill his museum. The formula has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road Hustlers
''The Road Hustlers'' is a 1968 American action film directed by Larry E. Jackson and starring Jim Davis, Scott Brady and Bruce Yarnell.Balducci p.72 It was shot on location in North Carolina. Plot Cast * Jim Davis as Noah Reedy * Scott Brady as Earl Veasey * Bruce Yarnell as Matt Reedy * Robert Dix as Mark Reedy * Victoria Carroll as Nadine * Andy Devine as Sheriff Estep * Sue Raney as Helen * Robert V. Barron as Luke Reedy * Theodore Lehmann as Hagar * John 'Bud' Cardos as Chandler * Bill McKinney as Hays * Bill MacDowell as Bassett * Jack Lester Jack William Lester (born 8 October 1975) is an English football coach and former professional player, who is a head of player development at EFL Championship club Sheffield United. As a player Sheffield born Lester played as a forward from 1 ... as Eskie * Sid Lawrence as Deke * Derek Hughes as Ted * Monica Davis as Martha Lu * Marshall Lockhart as Nelly * Jim E. Quick as Imhoff * Jack Morey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fastest Guitar Alive
''The Fastest Guitar Alive'' is a 1967 American Musical film, musical Comedy film, comedy western (genre), Western film directed by Mickey Moore, Michael D. Moore and starring singer Roy Orbison in his only acting role. The film features Orbison performing seven original songs, which appeared on his 1967 MGM Records, MGM album of the same name. His song "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" is featured in the 2015 western film ''The Hateful Eight''. Plot Near the end of the American Civil War, a Southern spy (Orbison) with a bullet-shooting guitar is given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco to help finance the ill-fated Confederate Army, Confederacy's last-ditch war effort. Cast * Roy Orbison as Johnny Banner * Sammy Jackson as Steve Menlo * Maggie Pierce (actress), Maggie Pierce as Flo Chesnut * Joan Freeman (actress), Joan Freeman as Sue Chesnut * Lyle Bettger as Charlie * John Doucette as Marshal Max Cooper * Patricia Donahue (actress), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
