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Dick Williams (singer)
Richard Blaine Williams (June 7, 1926 – May 5, 2018) was an American singer. He and his brothers, Bob, Don, and Andy Williams, performed as a quartet, The Williams Brothers. Biography Richard Blaine Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence (née Finley) Williams. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, he attended Western Hills High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School (Los Angeles, California), University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of his family's move to California. Williams had three brothers: Bob, Don, and Andy. One of his first performances was in a children's choir at the local Presbyterianism, Presbyterian church. He and his brothers formed the Williams Brothers quartet in late 1938, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO (AM), WHO, in Des Moines, Iowa. In July 1940 the family moved to Chicago and received a job at WLS (AM), WLS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wall Lake, Iowa
Wall Lake is a city in Sac County, Iowa, Sac County, Iowa, United States. The population was 755 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History Wall Lake was platted in 1877. The city took its name from nearby Wall Lake. Geography Wall Lake is located at (42.271141, -95.091724). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 819 people, 335 households, and 217 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 366 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.8% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.1% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, and 0.1% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census), Latino of any race were 0.1% of the population. There were 336 households, of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were Marriage, married couples living together, 7.2% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLS (AM)
WLS (890 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Cumulus Media, through licensee Radio License Holdings LLC, the station airs a talk radio format. WLS has its radio studios in the NBC Tower on North Columbus Drive in the city's Streeterville neighborhood. Its non-directional broadcast tower is located on the southwestern edge of Tinley Park, Illinois in Will County. WLS is a Class A station broadcasting on the clear-channel frequency of 890 kHz with 50,000 watts using a Nautel NX-50 transmitter. A Harris DX-50 serves as a backup transmitter. Both transmitters run in MDCL (Modulation Dependent Carrier Level) mode to improve efficiency. The station's daytime groundwave service contour covers portions of five states. At night, its signal routinely reaches 38 states via skywave. WLS participates in the Emergency Alert System's primary entry point network, serving that function for northern Illinois and western Indiana. The station's programm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Mansfield
Ken Mansfield (October 14, 1937 – November 17, 2022) was an American record producer who was the manager of Apple Records in the United States. He was also a high-ranking executive for several record labels, as well as a songwriter, author of seven books and a Grammy and Dove Award-winning album producer. From the 1960s, Mansfield was associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, Roy Orbison, Don Ho, the Imperials, Tompall Glaser, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Lou Rawls, Andy Williams, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eric Burdon, Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, David Cassidy, Nick Gilder, Claudine Longet, and Jessi Colter. In the 1970s, he helped popularize the Outlaw movement in country music by producing Waylon Jennings' number one album, '' Are You Ready for the Country'' as well as the crossover number-one hit "I’m Not Lisa" by Jessi Colter. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good News (1947 Film)
''Good News'' is a 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It starred June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé, and Joan McCracken. The screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was directed by Charles Walters in Technicolor. Three additional songs were written for the film: "The French Lesson", "Pass That Peace Pipe", and "An Easier Way", the last of which was cut from the released film. ''Good News'' was the second adaptation of the stage musical, after the 1930 film '' Good News''. The 1947 film was a more sanitized version of the musical; the 1930 version included Pre-Code content, such as sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor. Production The Film was originally planned for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as a follow up to their success in "Babes in Arms". ''Good News'' and ''Summer Stock'' was also originally planned to become part of the backyard musical series. ''Summer Stock'' was released three years later. Plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Harvey Girls
''The Harvey Girls'' is a 1946 Technicolor American musical film produced by Arthur Freed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on the 1942 The Harvey Girls (novel), novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, about Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), Fred Harvey's Fred Harvey Company#Harvey Girls, Harvey House waitresses. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury, as well as Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker (American performer), Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main and Chill Wills. Future star Cyd Charisse appears in her first speaking role on film. ''The Harvey Girls'' won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. Plot In the 1890s, a group of "Harvey Girls" – new waitresses for Fred Harvey (entrepreneur), Fred Harvey's pioneering chain of Fred Harvey Company, Harvey House restaurants – travels on the Atch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziegfeld Follies (film)
''Ziegfeld Follies'' is a 1945 American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily directed by Vincente Minnelli, with segments directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, and George Sidney, the film's original director before Minnelli took over. Other directors that are claimed to have made uncredited contributions to the film are Merrill Pye, Norman Taurog, and Charles Walters. It stars many MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble who was a star of the original Follies), Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams. Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows, and so, the film is composed of a sequence of unrelated lavish musical numbers and comedy sketches. Some of them, such as '' Pay the Two Dollars'', originated in ''Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchors Aweigh (film)
''Anchors Aweigh'' is a 1945 American live-action/animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. In the film, two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, meet a young boy and his aunt, an aspiring young singer, and the sailors try to help her get an audition at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In addition to a live-action Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse, the cartoon mouse of the ''Tom and Jerry'' series, the film also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, Dean Stockwell, and Sharon McManus. Tom Cat has a brief cameo appearance as a servant of Jerry Mouse, the lonesome king. The film received mixed reviews but it became a financial success. Plot Gunner's Mate Second Class Joe Brady and Seaman First Class Clarence Doolittle are USN sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl (the never seen) Lola. Clarence, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 and based in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions, Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious film studio, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur''. After that, it divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain, and, in the 1960s, diversified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies' Man (1947 Film)
''Ladies' Man'' is a 1947 American comedy film directed by William D. Russell (director), William D. Russell and written by Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose (screenwriter), Jack Rose and Lewis Meltzer. The film stars Eddie Bracken, Cass Daley, Virginia Welles, Spike Jones, Johnny Coy and Virginia Field. The film was released on February 7, 1947, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Cast *Eddie Bracken as Henry Haskell *Cass Daley as Geraldine Ryan *Virginia Welles as Jean Mitchell *Spike Jones as Spike Jones *Johnny Coy as Johnny O'Connor *Virginia Field as Gladys Hayden *Lewis Russell as David Harmon *Georges Renavent as Mr. Jones *Roberta Jonay as Miss Miller *Gordon Richards (actor), Gordon Richards as Mr. Bolton *The City Slickers as Spike Jones' Band Reception A. W. of ''The New York Times'' said, "Whatever may be one's opinion about ''Ladies Man'', it cannot be said that Eddie Bracken, its star, is miscast. For this singularly simple little item from Paramount, which began a stand at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something In The Wind
''Something in the Wind'' is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, and John Dall. Durbin's third husband Charles David said she "hated" making her last three films and that she would watch all her old movies except those three. Plot The film is about the grandson of a recently deceased millionaire who mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated his grandfather. It was O'Connor's first film after he returned from military service in World War II. The film includes the famous "I Love a Mystery" number performed by O'Connor. Cast * Deanna Durbin as Mary Collins * Donald O'Connor as Charlie Read * John Dall as Donald Read * Charles Winninger as Uncle Chester Read * Helena Carter as Clarissa Prentice * Margaret Wycherly as Grandma Read * Jean Adair as Aunt Mary Collins * The Williams Brothers as Singing Quartet * Jacqueline deWit as Fashion Show Saleslady * Jan Peerce as Tony, the Policema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Kitty
''Kansas City Kitty'' is a 1944 United States, American romance film, romantic musical film directed by Del Lord, starring Joan Davis and Jane Frazee. The film features the singing The Williams Brothers, Williams Brothers, including the youngest of the quartet, Andy Williams. Cast * Joan Davis - Polly Jasper * Bob Crosby - Jimmy * Jane Frazee - Eileen Hasbrook * Erik Rolf - Dr. Henry Talbot * Tim Ryan (actor), Tim Ryan - Dave Clark * Robert Emmett Keane - Joe Lathim * The Williams Brothers - Speciality Performers * Ray Walker (actor), Ray Walker - Lawyer Simpson *Johnny Bond (uncredited)- Chaps Wiliker References External links * * * 1944 films 1944 musical comedy films 1944 romantic comedy films American musical comedy films American romantic comedy films American romantic musical films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films Films set in New York City 1940s romantic musical films Films directed by Del Lord 1940s English-language films 1940s American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janie (1944 Film)
''Janie'' is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams Jr. The play was adapted from Benthams's 1940 novel by the same name. Plot Janie is a free-spirited teenage girl living in a small town. World War II brings the establishment of an army camp nearby, which is opposed by her father, the local newspaper publisher. Janie and her bobby soxer friends have their hearts set afire by the prospect of so many young soldiers so close. She enjoys dating an Army man, which makes her younger local boyfriend jealous. Cast * Joyce Reynolds as Janie Conway * Robert Hutton as Pfc. Dick Lawrence * Edward Arnold as Charles Conway * Ann Harding as Lucille Conway * Alan Hale as Professor Reardon * Robert Benchley as John Van Brunt * Clare Foley as Elsbeth Conway * Barbara Brown as Thelma Lawrence * Hattie McDaniel as April * Richard Erdman as Scooper Nolan * Jackie Moran as Mickey the Sailor * Ann Gillis as Paula Rainey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
