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Day Of The Nightmare
''Day of the Nightmare'' is a 1965 American horror film directed by John A. Bushelman and starring John Ireland, John Hart, and Elena Verdugo. The film is also known as ''Don't Scream, Doris Mays!''. The film was re-released in 1969, 1993 on VHS, and 2003 on DVD. The film tagline is "The Horror of Half Man, Half Woman, ALL KILLER!". Plot A man with a multiple personality disorder is accused in murdering of a woman. His wife risks her life trying to find out the truth about her husband's role. She considers that he could have committed the crime but intends to prove it after the police failed to find the victim's corpse. She visits her husband's father, a psychiatrist, only to encounter there a "corpse" who is quite alive and intent on killing both. She manages to survive, but her father-in-law is not so lucky. However, before he dies, he is able to recognize the killer as somebody whom he knows very well. Cast *John Ireland as Detective Sgt. Dave Harmon *Beverly Bain as Ba ... [...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.Vogel p.51 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'' for RKO Pictures and his first as producer was '' 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 Talking Mule films. He spent nearly five years at Universal-International before moving to 20th-Century Fox in 1952 where he formed Panoramic Pictures in 1953. He had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland. History The current company took shape when University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company. Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies. The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s English-language Films
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American Horror Films
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1965 Films
The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with ''The Sound of Music'' topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1965 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February 15 – George Stevens' production of ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'', a retelling of the account of Jesus Christ, premieres in New York City, New York. It was such a flop with critics and audiences that its failure discouraged production of religious epics for many years. It is considered notable in the 21st century for its astonishing landscapes, powerful and provocative cinematography, Max von Sydow's debut acting performance in an American film, and the final film performance of Claude Rains. * March 2 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptation of ''The Sound of Music'', directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, premieres. It quickly became a worldwide pheno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Renay
Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins (April 14, 1926 – January 22, 2007), known professionally as Liz Renay, was an American author and actress who appeared in John Waters' film ''Desperate Living'' (1977). Early life She was born Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins on April 14, 1926, in Chandler, Arizona, to William Andrew Dobbins (1898–1986) and his wife Ada May (née Phillips; 1904–1982), who were described as being "evangelical parents". The United States Federal Census from 1940 listed the Dobbins family living in Mesa, Arizona. Renay was recorded as Pearl, age 13. Her father, William, was a 41-year-old lettuce trimmer for a produce shipper. Renay had these siblings: Emily, who was four years older; William E., who was six years younger; Jack, nine years younger; and Dorothy May, 10 years younger. In 1949, Renay was named Miss Stardust of Arizona and in the contest won "$500 cash, a trip to New York, and a modeling contract in the 1949 contest." Her childhood was filled of dreams of becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Treadville
Bette Treadville (May 2, 1911 – February 3, 1989) was an American singer and actress, based in Los Angeles, California. Career Treadville was known as a "torch singer", a contralto who favored blues and ballads. She sang in Paris in the 1930s. She was described as the "heavy, heavy mama of song", in reference to her physique and performance style, and billed as "The Girl of 1,000 Songs" for her extensive repertoire, "some nice, some spicy". She was based in Los Angeles, a singer at Curtis Mosby's Club Alabam on the city's Central Avenue from 1933 to 1940. In 1935, she performed in a fundraising concert organized by Clarence Muse, benefiting the NAACP's anti-lynching work. She sang on radio shows, and made at least one recording, singing "Baby, Ain'tcha Satisfied?" with the Ceelle Burke orchestra, in 1936. As an actress, Treadville appeared in several films, including the comedy ''One Dark Night'' (1939; re-released as ''Night Club Girl'' in 1944), a race film, now lost, co-star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maralou Gray
Maralou Gray (born July 6, 1931) is an American film, television, and theater actress, and an operatic lyric coloratura soprano singer, active from the late 1930s through the 1960s. Early life Maralou Daralene Beatty was born in Chicago, Illinois to Dorothy Gray, Orpheum Circuit solo ballet dancer and national dancing schools owner and Arthur Beatty, restaurateur. Maralou spent a great deal of time in the company of her maternal grandparents, physician and surgeon, Dr. William O. Gray and Margaret Gray of Chicago, Illinois. They legally adopted her at the age of 4, officially renamed her Maralou Daralene Gray and became her legal mother and father. As a young girl, while singing the usual childhood songs, the family noticed that she had a lovely voice quality and a feel for music, so voice and piano lessons were started. At the age of 8, her coach took her to audition, and she was accepted as a contestant on radio's hit show- ''The Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour.'' For the next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterboxd
Letterboxd is an online social networking service co-founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011. It was launched as a social app focused on sharing opinions about, and love of film, and is maintained by a small team in Auckland, New Zealand. The site allows users to share their taste in films. Members can write reviews or share their opinions about films, keep track of what they have seen in the past, record viewing dates, make lists of films and showcase their favorite films, as well as meet and interact with other cinephiles. Films can be rated, reviewed, added to a specific date's diary entry, included in a list, and tagged with relevant keywords. History The site was launched at Brooklyn Beta. It transitioned from private to public beta on 24 April 2012, and all pages became publicly visible. It originally started with 23 films. Membership remained invitation-only until 8 February 2013, when it was opened for public use. The site also introduced a tiered stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiple Personality Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), better known as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The disorder is accompanied by memory gaps more severe than could be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. The personality states alternately show in a person's behavior; however, presentations of the disorder vary. Other conditions that often occur in people with DID include post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders (especially borderline and avoidant), depression, substance use disorders, conversion disorder, somatic symptom disorder, eating disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, and sleep disorders. Self-harm, non-epileptic seizures, flashbacks with amnesia for content of flashbacks, anxiety disorders, and suicidality are also common. Overview The following three subsections give brief overviews of the proposed cause of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ireland (actor)
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several Western films such as '' My Darling Clementine'' (1946), '' Red River'' (1948), ''Vengeance Valley'' (1951), and ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957). His other film roles include ''Spartacus'' (1960), '' 55 Days at Peking'' (1963), '' The Adventurers'' (1970), and ''Farewell, My Lovely'' (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably '' The Cheaters'' (1960–62). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry. Early life Ireland was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 30, 1914. He lived in New York City from a very early age. Ireland's formal education ended at the 7th grade, and he worked to help his fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FilmAffinity
FilmAffinity is a movie recommendations website created in 2002 in Madrid, Spain by the film critic Pablo Kurt Verdú Schumann and the programmer Daniel Nicolás. As of 2016, the site listed 125,000 movies and series and had 556,000 reviews written by its users. Registered users can rate movies, find recommended films based on their personal ratings, create any kind of movie lists and — in the Spanish version — write reviews. The site also includes information about contents of the main streaming services, such as Netflix, HBO Go, HBO, Movistar+, Filmin and Rakuten TV. This feature is currently limited to Netflix in the English version. It has been noted that FilmAffinity users tend to rate films more severely than IMDb users, resulting in consistently lower average scores. The site has 3 million unique users in Spain, which accounts for 70% of its total traffic, and serves more than 47 million pages per month worldwide. Advertisements are the site's only income, totaling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
