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White Feather (film)
''White Feather'' is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western (genre), Western film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Wagner. The movie was filmed in Durango, Durango, Durango, Mexico. The story is based on fact; however, the particulars of the plot and the characters of the story are fictional. Plot The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The Cheyenne agree to leave their hunting grounds so that white settlers can move in to search for gold. Colonel Lindsay and land surveyor Josh Tanner are in charge of the resettlement, but the mission is threatened when Appearing Day, the sister of Little Dog and fiancée of Cheyenne tribesman American Horse, falls for Tanner. When Appearing Day runs away to join Tanner at the fort, American Horse follows, seeking to kill him. He is captured, but later freed by Little Dog and the two ride off to the hills. Tanner, Col. Lindsay and a troop of soldiers go to the Cheyenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Feather Movie WS
White is the lightness, lightest color and is achromatic (having no colorfulness, chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) diffuse reflection, reflect and scattering, scatter all the visible spectrum, visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of Bourbon Restoration in France, monarchist France from 1815 to July Revolution, 1830, and of the White movement, monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durango, Durango
Durango (, ) is the capital and largest city of the northern List of states of Mexico, Mexican state of Durango and the seat of the Durango Municipality, municipality of Durango. It has a population of 616,068 as of the 2020 census with 688,697 living in the municipality. The city's official name is Victoria de Durango, renamed in honor of the first president of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria, a native of the state of Durango. The city is at an altitude of in the Valley of Guadiana. Durango was founded on 8 July 1563, by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra. During the Spanish colonial era the city was the capital of the Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain, Nueva Vizcaya province of New Spain, which consisted mostly of what became the Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua. The city was founded due to its proximity to the Cerro del Mercado, in the northern part of the modern city, which was believed to contain large amounts of silver. Eventually, an important iron depo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Robertson
Dayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923 – February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in '' Iron Horse''. He often was presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero. From 1968 to 1970, Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series ''Death Valley Days''. Described by ''Time'' magazine in 1959 as "probably the best horseman on television", for most of his career, Robertson played in Western films and television shows—well over 60 titles in all. Early life Born in 1923 to Melvin and Vervel Robertson in Harrah, Oklahoma, Robertson fought as a professional boxer while enrolled in the Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore. During this time Columbia Pictures offered to test Robertson for the lead in their film version of '' Golden Boy'', but Robertson turned down the trip to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Moore (actress)
Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929) is an American actress who began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in '' Come Back, Little Sheba'' (1952). Biography Child actress Moore was born January 7, 1929, in Glendale, California, and grew up in a Mormon family in Los Angeles. Moore's early appearances include '' The Howards of Virginia'' (1940), '' On the Sunny Side'' (1942), '' My Gal Sal'' (1942), '' A-Haunting We Will Go'' (1942), '' True to Life'' (1943), '' Gaslight'' (1944) (playing Ingrid Bergman's character as a child), ''Since You Went Away'' (1944), ''Sweet and Low-Down (1944 film), Sweet and Low-Down'' (1944), and ''The Clock (1945 film), The Clock'' (1945). As Helen Koford, she had a supporting role in ''Son of Lassie'' (1945) and ''Shadowed (film), Shadowed'' (1946). As "Jan Ford" she was billed third in ''The Devil on Wheels'' (1947) at Monogram. She was uncredited i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film production and film distribution, distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, it was founded in February 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. After numerous ownership and structural changes and revamps, United Artists was acquired by media conglomerate Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1981 for a reported $350 million ($ billion today). On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in One Three Media and Lightworkers Media and merged them to revive the television production unit of United Artists as United Artists Media Group (UAMG). MGM itself acquired UAMG on December 14, 2015, and folded it into MGM Television, their own television division. MGM briefly revived the United Artists brand as United Artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Fox
20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio, film production and Film distributor, distribution company owned by the Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, which is leased from Fox Corporation. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by this studio in theatrical markets. For over 80 years, 20th Century has been one of the major film studios, major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation by the merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures, and one of the original "studio system, Big Five" among eight majors of Hollywood's Cinema of the United States#Classical Hollywood cinema and the Golden Age of Hollywood, Golden Age. In 1985, the studio remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Goldstein
Leonard Goldstein (May 28, 1903 – July 23, 1954) was an American film producer who produced mainly low-budget films, making multiple films at a time. Arthur Lubin called him "a doll to work with. I don't think he knew too much about production and he listened to his directors." Biography He started as a theatre booking agent in Los Angeles and moved to New York in 1928. He joined Consolidated Film Industries from 1933 to 1936 before going to work for producer George Hirliman. His first film credit was as associate producer on ''Daniel Boone (1936 film), Daniel Boone'' for RKO Pictures and his first as producer was ''Black Bart (film), Black Bart'' in 1948. In 1946, he moved to International Pictures which later merged with Universal Pictures. He produced the first six films in the successful Ma and Pa Kettle film series, although Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki, made in 1952, was the seventh to be released, in 1955, after he had died. He also produced several of the Francis the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, including the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's '' The Paleface'' (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful. Living in Hollywood, he began to insist, even in his private life, that he was Native American, over time claiming membership in several different tribes. In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage and not Native American at all. Early life Cody was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, in southwestern Louisiana, a second son of Francesca Salpietra from Sicily and her husband, Antonio de Corti from south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milburn Stone
Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the Western (genre), Western series ''Gunsmoke''. Early life Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. Stone's brother, Joe Stone, says their uncle Fred Stone, was a versatile actor who appeared on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in circus, circuses). Although Stone had a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he turned it down, choosing instead to become an actor with a Repertory theatre, stock theater company headed by Helen Ross. The Burton town doctor, Joseph Wakefield Myers, MD was the town doctor from 1913 to 1928. Hugh was known to have said he styled his portrayal of a country Dr. based on Dr. Myers. Career In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a K ... [...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] |
Emile Meyer
Emile Meyer (August 18, 1910 – March 19, 1987) was an American actor, usually known for tough, aggressive, authoritative characters in Hollywood films from the 1950s era, mostly in Westerns or thrillers. Career Meyer had an uncredited, small speaking role as a sea captain in '' Panic in the Streets'' (1950) after Elia Kazan discovered him in a theatrical production in New Orleans. Meyer provided such noteworthy performances as Rufus Ryker, the cattle baron who brings in a hired killer in '' Shane'' (1953), as the belligerent Mr Halloran in ''Blackboard Jungle'' (1955), cast-against-type by Stanley Kubrick as Father Dupree in '' Paths of Glory'' (1957), and the corrupt cop Harry Kello, who intends to "chastise" Tony Curtis in ''Sweet Smell of Success'' (1957), his most frequently remembered role today. He also appeared on television, including a guest spot on John Payne's ''The Restless Gun'' and as a truculently stubborn juror opposite James Garner in the 1957 '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Leith
Virginia Leith (October 15, 1925 – November 4, 2019) was an American film and television actress. Career Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. Her debut was also the first film directed by Stanley Kubrick, a self-financed art house film, '' Fear and Desire'' (1953). She signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1954 and had leading roles in films such as '' Violent Saturday'' (1955), ''Toward the Unknown'', ''On the Threshold of Space'', and opposite Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward in the crime drama '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (all 1956). Her most recognizable role may have been that of a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive in ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'' (1962, shot 1959). She left acting after her 1960 marriage to actor Donald Harron. Following her divorce from Harron, in the 1970s Leith resumed her career and appeared mainly in television shows, including ''Starsky and Hutch'', ''Barnaby Jones'', '' The White Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
