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Bright Promise
''Bright Promise'' is an American daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972. Synopsis The show revolved around students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, located in the community of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four Census Bureau Region, census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). It occupies the northern central part of .... The name of the show reflected the overarching theme of the bright promise that the leaders of tomorrow graduating from Bancroft would ostensibly bring. At first, the main character was College president Thomas Boswell (Dana Andrews). Later, the focus shifted from the College, to the town of Bancroft at large, and focused mainly on the Pierce and Jones families. The main character by this time was Sandra Jones, who had been a student at Bancroft College, and mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is '' Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by '' Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via Prospect Park from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. ''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying the series' central protagonist Victoria Lord in March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lewis (American Actor)
David Lewis (October 19, 1916 – December 11, 2000) was an American actor. He was best known for being the original actor to portray Edward Quartermaine from 1978 to 1993 on the American soap opera ''General Hospital''. Early years Lewis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Television Lewis was a pioneering actor in television, his first televised role occurring in 1949 on the show ''Captain Video and His Video Rangers''. His credits include appearing in seven episodes of ''Perry Mason'' and one episode of ''The Tom Ewell Show'' and in the recurring role of Warden Crichton in ''Batman''. Lewis appeared on daytime television, making his soap debut on ''Love of Life'' as a murderer and later playing patriarch Henry Pierce on ''Bright Promise''. Brief guest stints on ''The Young and the Restless'' and ''Days of Our Lives'' followed. In 1978, he joined the cast of ''General Hospital'' in the role of Edward Quartermaine, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Miller (actress)
Cheryl Lynn Miller (born February 4, 1943) is an American actress and musician. Early years A California native, Miller is one of two children of an architect and film studio set designer, Howard Miller and accountant mother and travel agent, Elsie. She began acting as a young girl. Career The film ''Casanova Brown'' (1944) marked her screen debut at the age of 19 days. 1965 was a break-through year for Miller. She was featured with an elephant and a chimp on the hit TV series '' Flipper''. This caught the attention of the director (Ivan Tors) who later cast her in the film, ''Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion''. In this film she played Paula Tracy, the daughter of veterinarian Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson). The film led to her role again playing Paula Tracy alongside Thompson in the CBS television series, ''Daktari'', (1966–69). During the summer of 1965, Walt Disney chose Miller as his own contractee, dubbing her "The Typical American Girl". By early 1966, filming began f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Woodell
Patricia Joy Woodell (July 12, 1944 – September 29, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Bobbie Jo Bradley from 1963 to 1965 on ''Petticoat Junction''. Career Woodell was born July 12, 1944, in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Initially hoping to be a singer, she made some appearances as a teenager in Catskill Mountains hotels before making her acting debut in a 1962 episode of ''Cheyenne'', entitled "The Vanishing Breed". She went on to appear on the shows '' Hawaiian Eye'' (1963), ''The Gallant Men'' (1963), ''GE True'' (1963), and ''77 Sunset Strip'' (1963). She also appeared in the anticommunist film ''Red Nightmare'' (1962). (archive link requires scrolldown) Woodell is best remembered for being the first Bobbie Jo Bradley, one of three teenaged sisters, on the CBS sitcom, ''Petticoat Junction''; which began its run in 1963. She played the book-smart character for the sitcom's first two seasons (1963–1965) before leaving the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hobbs (actor)
Peter Hobbs (January 19, 1918 – January 2, 2011) was a French-born American character actor, known for roles on Broadway, television and film. Early life, education and military service Hobbs was born in Étretat, France, to Dr. Austin L. Hobbs and Mabel Foote Hobbs. However, he was raised in New York City. Hobbs attended Solebury School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and received his bachelor's degree from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He served in as sergeant in combat engineering during World War II and fought at the Battle of the Bulge. Career Hobbs made two guest appearances on ''Perry Mason'' including the role of defendant Gregory Pelham in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Careless Kidnapper." and the role of James Hyatt in the 1965 episode, "The Case of the Cheating Chancellor." He also had appearances and recurring roles on ''Barney Miller'', ''Lou Grant'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''The Doris Day Show'', '' The Facts of Life'', ''Knots Landing'', ''The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray (born Doris Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films '' Nightmare Alley'' (1947), '' Red River'' (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's '' The Killing'' (1956). Early years Born to Danish parents in Staplehurst, Nebraska, Gray moved with her family to Hutchinson, Minnesota when she was seven. She grew up on a farm. After graduating from Hutchinson high school in 1943 as Doris Jensen, she studied drama at Hamline University, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts. She travelled to California, and worked as a waitress in a restaurant in La Jolla. After several weeks there, she moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at UCLA. She also worked in the school's library and at a YWCA while a student. Stage She had leading roles in the Los Angeles stage productions ''Letters to Lucerne'' and ''Brief Music'', which won her a 20th Century Fox contract in 1944.Magers, p. 94. Film appearances Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Jones-Moreland
Betsy Jones-Moreland (died May 1, 2006) was an American actress. Early life Jones-Moreland worked in secretarial jobs before she became an entertainer. Career Jones-Moreland acted on stage, including as a member of the newly formed Valley Playhouse in Woodland Hills, California, in 1958 and the Players Ring Theater in Los Angeles in 1960. She also appeared in ''The Solid Gold Cadillac'' on Broadway and in the touring company that presented that play across the United States. She began her film career in small roles in the mid-1950s, appearing in several Roger Corman films, including a lead role in ''Last Woman on Earth'' (1960). Subsequently, she appeared mostly on television through 1975. Jones-Moreland guest-starred in an episode of the television series '' Ironside'' starring Raymond Burr, and in the early 1990s appeared in a recurring role as a judge in a series of his ''Perry Mason'' television films. Her first ''Perry Mason'' appearance was in 1959 as Lorrie Garvin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Eastham
Richard Eastham (born Dickinson Swift Eastham; June 22, 1916 – July 10, 2005) was an American actor of stage, film, and television, a concert singer known for his deep baritone voice, and an inventor. Early years Eastham's birth name was chosen in honor of Miss Helen Dickinson Swift, one of his mother's college classmates. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest K. Eastham, and he attended Soldan High School. Prior to serving in the Army during World War II, he was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, where he sang with the St. Louis Grand Opera. Career On Broadway, Eastham was the understudy for Ezio Pinza as "Emile DeBecque" in '' South Pacific'', eventually replacing Pinza on stage. His performance was so well received that he was made the male lead for a two-year national tour of the musical. His other Broadway plays included ''Medea'' and ''Call Me Madam''. Eastham and co-star Janet Blair, in their original roles, headed another tour of ''South Pacific'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Compton
Forrest Compton (September 15, 1925 – April 4, 2020) was an American actor, primarily known for playing Mike Karr on the daytime soap opera ''The Edge of Night''. Early life and education Compton was born in 1925 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father sold aluminum pots and pans and worked at a local steel mill. After high school, Compton fought in the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II. When the war ended, Compton attended Swarthmore College, where he initially studied pre-law and political science but later switched to English. Compton also began acting school theatre productions. After graduating from Swarthmore, Compton earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama, where he befriended Paul Newman. Career Compton was best known for portraying attorney Mike Karr, the central character on the long-running soap opera ''The Edge of Night'', on which he appeared from 1970 to 1984. He also played stern but fair battalion commander Lieutenant Colone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Francis
Ivor Francis (October 26, 1918 – October 22, 1986) was a Canadian-American character actor and acting teacher. He is the father of television soap opera actress Genie Francis. Life and career Francis was born in Toronto and began his acting career on the radio in Canada. He served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War and then moved to the United States, where he played the son, Joe, in the radio program ''Ma Perkins''. Francis made several appearances on Broadway, in such plays as ''The Devil's Advocate'', ''Gideon'' and '' J.B.''. He performed frequently on television, including appearances in ''I Dream Of Jeannie'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''Barney Miller'' (as 4 different characters), a psychologist on ''Happy Days'', ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Benson'' , ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', ''Dark Shadows'', ''Bright Promise'', ''Room 222'', ''Get Smart'', ''The Practice'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth McDevitt
Ruth Thane McDevitt ( Shoecraft; September 13, 1895 – May 27, 1976) was an American film, stage, radio, and television actress. Career The daughter of John Barnabas Shoecraft and Elizabeth Imber Shoecraft, McDevitt was born in Coldwater, Michigan, but grew up in Ohio. After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she married Patrick McDevitt on December 10, 1928, and decided to devote her time to her marriage. After her husband's death in 1934, she returned to acting. She made her debut on Broadway in 1940, and succeeded her friend Josephine Hull in '' Arsenic and Old Lace'', ''Harvey'', and ''The Solid Gold Cadillac''. McDevitt also acted on radio, portraying the title character's mother in ''Keeping up with Rosemary'' and Jane in ''This Life Is Mine''. On television, McDevitt portrayed Bessie Thatcher in the DuMont drama '' A Woman to Remember'' (1949). She played Mom Peepers in the 1950s sitcom ''Mister Peepers'' and Grandma Hanks on CBS's ''Pistols 'n' Petticoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
