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Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key Radical feminism, radical feminist member of the American Feminist movement, Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology ''Sisterhood Is Powerful'' was cited by the New York Public Library as "One of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century.". She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and was editor of ''Ms. (magazine), Ms.'' magazine. During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements; in the late 1960s, she was a founding member of radical feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H. (organisation), W.I.T.C.H. She founded or co-founded the Feminist Women's Health Network, the National Battered Women's Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Worth, Florida
Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, located about north of Miami. The city's name is derived from the body of water along its eastern border known as the Lake Worth Lagoon, which was named for General William J. Worth, who led United States Army forces during the last part of the Second Seminole War. Lake Worth Beach is situated south of West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach, southeast of Lake Clarke Shores, Florida, Lake Clarke Shores, east of Palm Springs, Florida, Palm Springs, and north of Lantana, Florida, Lantana, while a small section of the city also partitions the town of Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach. The 2010 United States census, 2010 census recorded a population of 34,910, which increased to 42,219 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Lake Worth Beach is within the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,138,333 people in 2020. While archaeolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Women (BBC)
''100 Women'' is a BBC multi-format series established in 2013. The annual series examines the role of women in the 21st century and has included events in London and Mexico. Announcement of the list is the start of an international "BBC's women season", lasting three weeks including broadcast, online reports, debates and journalism on the topic of women. Women around the world are encouraged to participate via social media and comment on the list, as well as on the interviews and debates that follow release of the list. History After the 2012 Delhi gang rape, then BBC Controller Liliane Landor, BBC editor Fiona Crack and other journalists, were inspired to create a series focusing on the issues and achievements of women in society today. They felt that many of the issues women faced were not getting in-depth coverage, and in March 2013 a "flood of feedback from female listeners" was received by the BBC to the effect that the corporation should provide more "content from and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', originally called ''Hallmark Television Playhouse'', is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas Citybased greeting card company. It is the longest-running prime-time series in the history of television; it began airing in 1951 and aired on network television until 2014, with episodes largely limited to one film in a span of several months since the 1980s. Since 1954, all of its productions have been broadcast in color. It was one of the first video productions to telecast in color, a rarity in the 1950s. Many television films have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty-one Emmy Awards, dozens of Christopher Award, Christopher and Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger (TV Series)
''Danger'' is a CBS television dramatic anthology series that began on September 26, 1950, and ended on May 31, 1955. Its original title was ''Amm-i-dent Playhouse.'' The show "was one of the first television dramatic series to make effective use of background music" The show featured many actors including Leslie Nielsen, E. G. Marshall, Joseph Anthony, Edward Binns, John Cassavetes, Míriam Colón, Ben Gazzara, Grace Kelly, Richard Kiley, Walter Slezak, Hildy Parks, James Gregory, Paul Langton, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Meadows, Martin Ritt, Maria Riva, Lee Grant, Kim Stanley, Rod Steiger, Charles Tyner, Steve Allen, Anne Bancroft, Jacqueline Susann, Walter Matthau, and Leo Penn. Singer Johnny Desmond made his TV acting debut in the April 28, 1953, episode. Production Charles Russell was the producer of ''Danger''. Yul Brynner was one of the directors. Other directors included Curt Conway and Sidney Lumet Sidney Arthur Lumet ( ; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspense (American TV Series)
''Suspense'' is an American television anthology series An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a different ca ... that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the Suspense (radio program), radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Series overview The show was broadcast live from New York City to stations on CBS's eastern and midwestern networks. Kinescope recordings were made for transmission via KTTV in Hollywood. It was sponsored by the Autolite, Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from ''Suspense'' radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omnibus (UK TV Series)
''Omnibus'' is a British documentary series broadcast mainly on BBC One. The programme was the successor to the arts-based series ''Monitor''. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards. History For one season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. In 2001, the BBC announced that the programme was being switched to BBC Two, prompting accusations that the corporation was further marginalising its arts programming."BBC arts chief defends Omnibus switch" by Jason Deans, '''', 6 February 2001 BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice In Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (also known as ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English Children's literature, children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics university don, don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book. It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Age Of Television
The first Golden Age of Television is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions. The period is generally recognized as beginning in 1947 with the first episode of the drama anthology '' Kraft Television Theater''Anthony Slide, ed., ''The Television Industry: A Historical Dictionary'', Greenwood Press, 1991, p. 121. and ending in 1960 with the final episode of ''Playhouse 90'' (although a few Golden Age shows and stars continued into the 1960s). The Golden Age was followed by the network era, wherein television audiences and programming had shifted to less critically acclaimed fare, almost all of it taped or filmed. Limitations of early television Prior to 1928, there had been some attempts at television programming using the mechanical television process. One of the first series made specifically for television to have a sustained run was CBS's 1931–1933 murder-mystery series '' The Television Ghost'', which ran for all 19 month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen Saint
'' Citizen Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini'' is a 1947 film about a Catholic saint. It was directed by Harold Young. It was produced by Clyde Elliott Attractions. It is about Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian woman who becomes a nun and is eventually sainted. The film includes songs. Cast *Rev. E. V. Dailey (narrator) *Carla Dare as Francesca "Cecchina" Cabrini (later Mother Cabrini) *Jed Prouty as Neil Hartley * Loraine Mae Martin as Rhea * Walter Butterworth as Junior *Robin Morgan as Cecchina Cabrini * Maurice Cavell as Anton *William Harrigan as Father Vail *June Harrison as Dorine *Lucille Fenton as Antonia Tondini *Lauretta Campeau as Salesia *June DuFrayne as Veronica Reception A review in ''Variety'' read, "Carla Dare plays the title role and does well by it. Best sequence is that in which she miraculously recalls Julie Hayden ic as sister Delfina, from death... Photography by Don Malkames and other credits are okay". Grace Kingsley of ''The Los Angeles Times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Wood
Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS Television show, television series ''Mama (American TV series), Mama'' (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi (biblical figure), Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in ''The Story of Ruth'' (1960); and her final screen appearance as Virgilia, Mother Abbess, Mother Abbess in ''The Sound of Music (film), The Sound of Music'' (1965), for which she received nominations for both an Academy Awards, Academy Award and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award. Career Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She studied voice in France with soprano Emma Calvé. Wood was an early member of the Actors' Equity Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama (American TV Series)
''Mama'' is a weekly CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957. The series was based on the 1943 novel ''Mama's Bank Account'' by Kathryn Forbes, which was also adapted for the John Van Druten play (1944) and the subsequent film ''I Remember Mama (film), I Remember Mama'' (1948). It told the ongoing story of a loving Norway, Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice). At the start of each episode, Katrin would be shown looking through the pages of the family album, with the opening narration: This old album makes me remember so many things in the past. San Francisco and the house on Steiner Street where I was born. It brings back memories of my cousins, aunts and uncles; all the boys and girls I grew up with. And I remember my family as we were then. My big brother Nels, my little sister Dagmar, and of course, Papa. But most of all, when I look back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juvenile Jury
''Juvenile Jury'' was an American children's game show that originally ran on NBC from April 3, 1947, to August 1, 1954. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured a panel of children aged ten or less giving advice to solve the problems of other children. Celebrity guests appeared on the show, including Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton and Milton Berle. The show began in 1946 as a radio program on WOR in New York,"Radio: Juvenile Jury" ''Time magazine'', June 17, 1946. but then successfully made the transition to television. It continued to be broadcast as a radio program until 1953.Sies, Luther F. ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960.'' McFarland & Co. 2000. p. 301. Controversy In a 1953 episode, four-year-old panelist Michelle Fogel claimed that she was told the questions/"problems" the night before, and further claimed that her answer to the first problem was what "my mommy told me to say"; Barry then, and again several times during the remainder of the episode, tried to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
