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Don't Make Waves
''Don't Make Waves'' is a 1967 American sex comedy (with elements of the beach party genre) starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1959 novel '' Muscle Beach'' by Ira Wallach, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film depicts a series of romantic triangles between different groupings of the principal cast and supporting players among several backdrops involving Southern California culture (swimming pools, bodybuilding, beach life, fantastic real estate, mudslides, metaphysical gurus, etc.). Plot Carlo Cofield, a tourist visiting California's west coast, has not even arranged lodging, when his car is smashed by a reckless driver. She is a carefree, attractive Italian artist named Laura Califatti, who offers her couch for Carlo to sleep on that night. This arrangement displeases Rod Prescott, a wealthy swimming-pool builder, because Laura i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American-born Scottish film director and screenwriter. He directed nine feature films between 1949 and 1967, before retiring from filmmaking to become an influential professor at the California Institute of the Arts. Born to Scottish immigrant parents in Boston, he was raised in Glasgow from the age of six. He began making television commercials before moving into post-production editing and directing films, most notably for Ealing Studios where his films include ''Whisky Galore! (1949 film), Whisky Galore!'' (1949), ''The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) - which earned him an Academy Award, Oscar nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Screenplay, ''The Maggie'' (1954), and ''The Ladykillers (1955 film), The Ladykillers'' (1955). In 1957, Mackendrick directed his first American film ''Sweet Smell of Success'', which was a critical and commercial success. However, his directing career d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmways
Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper in 1952. It is probably best remembered as the production company of CBS' "rural comedies" of the 1960s, including '' Mister Ed'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', '' Petticoat Junction'', and '' Green Acres'', as well as the comedy-drama '' The Trials of O'Brien'', the western '' Dundee and the Culhane'', the adventure show '' Bearcats!'', the police drama '' Cagney & Lacey'', and ''The Addams Family''. The company also briefly distributed '' SCTV'' in the United States and also distributed a syndicated half-hour edition of reruns of ''Saturday Night Live'' in the late 1970s. Notable films the company produced include '' The Sandpiper'', ''The Cincinnati Kid'', '' The Fearless Vampire Killers'', '' Ice Station Zebra'', '' Summer Lovers'', '' The Burning'', ''King'', Brian De Palma's '' Dressed to K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Henderson (actor)
Douglas Henderson (January 14, 1919 – April 5, 1978) was an American film and television actor. Biography Henderson was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. After having been active in Repertory theatre, stock theater in the eastern United States, Henderson shifted to film in 1952, with his appearance in Stanley Kramer's ''Eight Iron Men''. Additional film appearances include the 1962 John Frankenheimer film ''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film), The Manchurian Candidate'', in which he played Col. Milt, the direct supervisor of the Maj. Marco character (played by Frank Sinatra). He played Congressman Morrissey in the 1968 comedy ''Stay Away, Joe'' starring Elvis Presley. On television, Henderson made six guest appearances on ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason'', including the role of title character and defendant Felix Heidemann in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Clumsy Clown". In 1962, Henderson g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Ann Payne
Julie Anne Payne (July 10, 1940 – June 7, 2019) was an American actress who appeared in television and films from 1959 to 1967. Early life A native of Los Angeles, Julie Anne Payne was the daughter of John Payne, film and television leading man of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and Anne Shirley, who started as a child actress in the late silent-early talkie period and became an ingenue and, later, leading lady of the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were married from 1937 to 1943; Julie was their only child together. Career Starting an eight-year television and film career, she made her debut at the age of 18 as the sole female in "The Pawn", the April 6, 1959 installment of her father's 1957–59 NBC Western series, ''The Restless Gun'', and subsequently appeared in episodes of ''One Step Beyond'' ("Premonition", seen on March 10, 1959, one month before the broadcast of her ''Restless Gun'' performance), ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' ("Graduating Class", December 27, 1959), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Selby
Sarah Elizabeth Selby (August 30, 1905 – January 7, 1980) was an American actress. Career Selby was a character actress who played minor roles for the most part – usually a town gossip, maiden aunt, or teacher. Beginning her career as a radio actress, she made her screen debut voicing one of the elephants in Disney's '' Dumbo'' (1941). She was best known for her recurring role as Ma Smalley, the owner of a boarding house on TV's '' Gunsmoke'' (1955). She had recurring roles on '' The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', initially as Gracie's friend Mamie Kelly, and then a recurring role as Lucille Vanderlip the society hostess wife of banker Chester Vanderlip. In 1964, she appeared with Jackie Cooper in an episode of the '' Twilight Zone'' (S5,E32 - " Caesar and Me"). She also had a recurring role on '' Father Knows Best'' as Jim Anderson's ( Robert Young) secretary. She starred in numerous films from 1941 to 1978. In her first role, she voiced the elephant Prissy in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grace Canfield
Mary Grace Canfield (September 3, 1924 – February 15, 2014) was an American theatre, film and television actress. Early life and career Mary Grace Canfield was born in Rochester, New York, the second child of Hildegard (née Jacobson) and Hubert Canfield. She grew up in Pittsford, New York. She had a sister, Constance, who was two years older. Acting mostly in small theatre companies and regional theatre between 1952 and 1964, she appeared in several Broadway plays, but most ran for no more than a month. Her Broadway credits include ''The Waltz of the Toreadors'' and ''The Frogs of Spring''. Canfield's first credited performance on television was in March 1954 when she portrayed Frances in the episode "Native Dancer" on '' Goodyear Playhouse''. After making additional television appearances, she played housekeeper Amanda Allison on the sitcom ''The Hathaways'' during the 1961-1962 season. As Thelma Lou's "ugly" cousin in an episode of ''The Andy Griffith Show'', she had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994)Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor. Early life Taylor was born February 26, 1907, in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor Sr."The Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920" enumeration date January 15, 1920, Augusta City, Richmond County, Georgia. Digital copy of original census page, FamilySearch. Retrieved A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen (né Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Bergen pioneered modern-day ventriloquism and has been described by puppetry organization UNIMA as the “quintessential ventriloquist of the 20th century”. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen. Early life Bergen was born in Chicago, one of five children and the younger of two sons of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter (née Osberg) and Johan Henriksson Berggren. He lived on a farm near Decatur, Michigan until he was four, when his family returned to Sweden, where he learned the language. After his family had returned to Chicago, when he was eleven, he taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet called "The Wizard's Manual". He attended Lake View High School. After his father died, when Edgar was 16, he went out to work as an ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Sahl
Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social Satire, satirist, considered the first modern comedian. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. Sahl spent his early years in Los Angeles and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he made his professional stage debut at the hungry i nightclub in 1953. His popularity grew quickly, and after a year at the club, he traveled the country doing shows at established nightclubs, theaters, and college campuses. In 1960 he became the first comedian to be featured in a ''Time (magazine), Time'' cover story. He appeared on various television shows, played a number of film roles, and performed a one-man show on Broadway (theatre), Broadway. Television host Steve Allen said that Sahl was "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy". His social satir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouth To Mouth Resuscitation
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, a form of artificial ventilation, is the act of assisting or stimulating respiration in which a rescuer presses their mouth against that of the victim and blows air into the person's lungs. Artificial respiration takes many forms, but generally entails providing air for a person who is not breathing or is not making sufficient respiratory effort on their own. It is used on a patient with a beating heart or as part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to achieve the internal respiration. Pulmonary ventilation (and hence external respiration) is achieved through manual insufflation of the lungs either by the rescuer blowing into the patient's lungs, or by using a mechanical device to do so. This method of insufflation has been proved more effective than methods which involve mechanical manipulation of the patient's chest or arms, such as the Silvester method. It is also known as expired air resuscitation (EAR), expired air ventilation (EAV), rescue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscle Beach (novel)
''Muscle Beach'' is a 1959 novel by American writer Ira Wallach. It was reprinted in 1967 as a paperback under the new title ''Don't Make Waves''. Plot Carlo Cofield, a restless WWII vet in New York City, alternates between work at the Atlantic Novelty Company and hanging out at the Treble Bar listening to the Quo Vadis Quartet. Impulsively entering an office of Seaspray Swimming Pools, he pitches a sale to a client on Long Island. A condition of his making this sale is his being transferred to the Seaspray office in LA. During his flight to the Coast he places his neck-tie in an air-sickness bag for disposal, never to be worn again. In LA, he meets Vic Salter and his chimp Simeon in a bar up on Sunset. Vic introduces Carlo to hit songwriter Prescott Tom, whose sister Toby takes him to the beach to see the body builders. Carlo joins them to get close to the beautiful Jocelyn, but eventually he finds happiness and fulfillment with Toby. Film adaptations The novel was made in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Party Film
The beach party film is an American film genre of feature films which were produced and released between 1963 and 1968, created by American International Pictures (AIP), beginning with their surprise hit, '' Beach Party'', in July 1963. With this film, AIP is credited with creating the genre. In addition to the AIP films, several contributions to the genre were produced and released by major and independent studios alike. According to various sources, the genre comprises over 30 films,McParlandChidesterBetrock with the lower-budget AIP films being the most profitable. Generally comedies, the core elements of the AIP films consist of a group of teenage and/or college-age characters as protagonists; non-parental adult characters as antagonists and/or comic relief; simple, silly storylines that avoid any sober social consciousness; teen trends and interests (such as dancing, surfing, drag racing, custom cars, music, irresponsible drinking, etc.); simple romantic arcs; original song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
