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Ask Any Girl (film)
''Ask Any Girl'' is a 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, and Gig Young. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on a novel by Winifred Wolfe. Plot A wide-eyed Meg Wheeler comes to New York City and takes a job in market research for a large firm. She's also keeping an eye open to meet the right man, her research making her aware that the United States has five million more females than males. Upon meeting two clients, the reserved and somewhat stodgy Miles Doughton and his playboy younger brother Evan, it doesn't take long for Meg to realize she's romantically interested in Evan. Miles is willing to help. He has seen so many of his brother's conquests come and go that he knows what Evan likes in a girl. Therefore, in a Pygmalion-like way, he sets out to transform Meg into exactly that kind of girl. What she doesn't yet know is that Miles secretly comes to want her for himself. Cast *David Niven as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodie Heath
Rowena Dolores Heath (born August 3, 1926), also known as Dodie Heath, credited as Dody Heath, is an American retired actress of stage, film, and television. Early life She was born Rowena Dolores Heath in Seattle, Washington to Wilfrid Paul Heath and Alice (Alexander) Heath.1930 US Federal Census for Delores Heath, retrieved froAncestry.com/ref> She had one sibling, an older brother. Her father was an inventor, who patented processes for using carbonization in the production of ice cream and butter. When Rowena was only six months old, her father sent a testimonial letter and photo of the infant to a goat milk company, praising the product she had been fed on since birth. The company printed both the photo and letter in a Chicago-area newspaper advertisement, preserving the details of Heath's birth and foreshadowing her life in the public eye. Although his patents brought him a substantial income in the 1920s, Heath's father proved a poor investor and was reduced to designing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Read Morgan
Read Lawrence Morgan (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing the role of Sergeant Hapgood Tasker in the American western television series ''The Deputy''. Life and career Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he played basketball and football. After two years there Morgan left to study drama at Northwestern University, then served in the United States Air Force for two years. He began his acting career in the crime drama television series '' The Big Story''in 1949. Later he joined the cast of the western television series ''The Deputy'', playing army officer Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, who had blindness in one eye, wearing a eye patch. Morgan also appeared in the Broadway play ''Li'l Abner''. Morgan appeared in numerous television programs, his credits including '' Gunsmoke'', ''Wagon Train'', ''The United States Steel Hour'', ''M Squad'', '' How the West Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Romantic Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive Islands, Maldive archipelago (Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) United Suvadive Republic, declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Films
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, ''Plunderers of Painted Flats''. *January 29 – Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' premieres, their most expensive film to date and the first animated film to be shot in Super Technirama 70. It initially ends up losing money for the studio due to its high production costs. However, it would eventually gain a cult following and is now considered one of Disney's great classics. *April 30 – François Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release their 190th and last short film, ''Sappy Bull Fighters''. * June 7 – A contract between Paramount and Jerry Lewis Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 1959
The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film '' Ben-Hur'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture, among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars. A–B C–D E–H I–N O–S T–Z See also * 1959 in the United States References External links * 1959 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1959 1959 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1959 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Machine (1960 Film)
''The Time Machine'' (also marketed as ''H. G. Wells' The Time Machine'') is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The story is set in Victorian England and follows an inventor who constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future. Once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. The film was originally released on August 17, 1960, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future. Plot On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at the London home of their in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Like It Hot
''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film ''Fanfare of Love''. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. ''Some Like It Hot'' opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $ billion in ) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Monroe as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th Golden Globe Awards
The 17th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1959 films, were held on March 10, 1960. Winners and nominees Film Best Film - Drama '' Ben-Hur'' *''Anatomy of a Murder'' *''The Diary of Anne Frank'' *'' The Nun's Story'' *'' On the Beach'' Best Film - Comedy '' Some Like It Hot'' *'' But Not For Me'' *''Operation Petticoat'' *''Pillow Talk'' *'' Who Was That Lady?'' Best Film - Musical ''Porgy and Bess'' *''The Five Pennies'' *''Li'l Abner'' *''Say One for Me'' *''A Private's Affair'' Best Actor - Drama Anthony Franciosa - ''Career'' *Richard Burton - ''Look Back In Anger'' * Charlton Heston - '' Ben-Hur'' *Fredric March - ''Middle of the Night'' *Joseph Schildkraut - ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' Best Actress - Drama Elizabeth Taylor - '' Suddenly, Last Summer'' * Audrey Hepburn - '' The Nun's Story'' * Katharine Hepburn - '' Suddenly, Last Summer'' *Lee Remick - ''Anatomy of a Murder'' *Simone Signoret - '' Room at the Top'' Best Actor - Musical or C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Berlin International Film Festival
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to the French film '' Les Cousins'' directed by Claude Chabrol. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Robert Aldrich, director (United States) - Jury President * Johan Jacobsen, director, screenwriter and producer (Denmark) * Charles Ford, writer and filmmaker (France) * John Bryan, production designer (United Kingdom) * Ignazio Tranquilli, writer and playwright (Italy) * Shigeo Miyata, painter and physician (Japan) * Wali Eddine Sameh, director (United Arab Emirates) * O. E. Hasse, actor (West Germany) * Gerhard Prager, writer and producer (West Germany) * Fritz Podehl, producer (West Germany) * Walther Schmieding, jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear For Best Actress
The Silver Bear for Best Actress (german: Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chosen by the International Jury from the films in the Competition slate at the festival. Beginning with the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the award was replaced with two gender-neutral categories, Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival held in 1956, Elsa Martinelli was the first winner of this award for her performance in '' Donatella'', and Paula Beer was the last winner in this category for her role in ''Undine'' at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. History The award was first presented in 1956, and can be for lead or supporting roles. The prize was not awarded on four occasions (1969, 1973–74, and 1990). In 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th British Academy Film Awards
The 13th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1960, honoured the best films of 1959 in film, 1959. Winners and nominees Best Film ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben-Hur'' *''Anatomy of a Murder'' *''The Magician (1958 film), Ansiktet'' *''The Big Country'' *''Compulsion (1959 film), Compulsion'' *''Gigi (1958 film), Gigi'' *''Look Back in Anger (1959 film), Look Back in Anger'' *''North West Frontier (film), North West Frontier'' *''The Nun's Story (film), The Nun's Story'' *''Sapphire (film), Sapphire'' *''Some Like It Hot'' *''Tiger Bay (1959 film), Tiger Bay'' *''Yesterday's Enemy'' *''Maigret tend un piège'' *''Ashes and Diamonds (film), Ashes and Diamonds'' Best British Film ''Sapphire (film), Sapphire'' *''Look Back in Anger (1959 film), Look Back in Anger'' *''Anatomy of a Murder'' *''Tiger Bay (1959 film), Tiger Bay'' *''Yesterday's Enemy'' Best Foreign Actor Jack Lemmon in ''Some Like It Hot'' *James Stewart in ''Anatomy of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
