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Fredd Wayne
Fredd Wayne (born Fredd Wiener; October 17, 1924 – August 27, 2018) was an American actor with a career spanning seven decades on Broadway, radio, television, movies, and recorded works. He appeared on television as a guest star, and portrayed Benjamin Franklin, originally in his one-man show ''Benjamin Franklin, Citizen'', on television, recordings, and live appearances. Early life Fredd Wayne was born in Akron, Ohio to working-class parents Celia (Mirman) and salesman Charles Theodore Wiener. Two days after graduating from John R. Buchtel High School he took a bus to Hollywood in hopes of working for cousin Lester Cowan who had produced ''My Little Chickadee'' and several Marx Brothers films. He recalls sitting in the lobby of Columbia Studios for three days before Cowan dismissed him with: "I got nuthin’ for you, kid." After Wayne's money and graduation watch were stolen, a neighbor who worked at Warner Brothers drove him to the studio where he was hired as a mail boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredd Wayne As Paul Malloy In The Twilight Zone, Season 3, Episode 2, The Arrival, Air Date 22-Sept-1991
Fred can be a given name or a surname. Given name Fred can be an either a given name in its own right or the diminutive form of the given names Frederick, Alfred, Manfred, or Wilfred. Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of French comics creator Fred Othon Aristidès * Fred (footballer, born 1979) Helbert Frederico Carreiro da Silva, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1983) Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1986) Frederico Burgel Xavier, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1993) Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos, Brazilian footballer * Fred la marmotte (Fred the groundhog), Canadian groundhog who predicts weather on Groundhog Day A * Fred Aandahl (other), multiple people * Fred Abbott (1874–1935), American baseball catcher * Fred Abel (1903–1980), American football player * Fred Abraham Jr. (1886–1918), British Guianese cricketer * Fred Abraham Sr. (1859–?), British Guia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington And Lee University
, mottoeng = "Not Unmindful of the Future" , established = , type = Private liberal arts university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.092 billion (2021) , president = William C. Dudley , provost = Lena Hill , city = Lexington , state = Virginia , country = United States , pushpin_map = Shenandoah Valley#USA Virginia#USA , students = 2,223 (Fall 2019) , undergrad = 1,829 (Fall 2019) , postgrad = 394 (Fall 2019) , faculty = 240 full-time and 69 part-time (Fall 2019) , campus = Distant Town , campus_size = , sporting_affiliations = , nickname = Generals , colors = Liberty Hall Grey W&L Blue , website = , logo = Web wordmark1.png , logo_upright = 1.1 , free_label2 = Newspaper , free2 = ''The Ring-tum Phi'' , mascot = Trident (no mascot - athletics symbol) , accreditation = SACS , embedded = Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia. Established in 1749 as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Whitmore
James Allen Whitmore Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor. He received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Theatre World Award, and a Tony Award, plus two Academy Award nominations. Biography Early life and military service Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and James Allen Whitmore Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, for three years, before transferring to the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, on a football scholarship. He went on to study at Yale University, but he had to quit playing football after severely injuring his knees."James Whitmore dies at 87" by Dennis McLellan. Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2009. After giving up football, he turned to the Yale Dramatic Society and began acting. While at Yale, he was a member of Skull and Bones, and was among the founders of the Yale radio s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (born Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr.; February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor. Known for his bass voice and premature white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. Although initially typecasting, typecast as the "heavy" (i.e. villainous character), he later gained prominence for portraying anti-hero, anti-heroes, such as Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger on the television series ''M Squad'' (1957–1960). Marvin's notable roles in film included Charlie Strom in ''The Killers (1964 film), The Killers'' (1964), Rico Fardan in ''The Professionals (1966 film), The Professionals'' (1966), Major John Reisman in ''The Dirty Dozen'' (1967), Ben Rumson in ''Paint Your Wagon (film), Paint Your Wagon'' (1969), Walker in ''Point Blank (1967 film), Point Blank'' (1967), and the Sergeant in ''The Big Red One'' (1980). Marvin achieved numerous accolades when he portrayed both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Theatre Wing
The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre", according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women's War Relief during World War I, it later became a part of the World War II Allied Relief Fund under its current name. The ATW created and sponsors the Tony Awards in theatrical arts. Background Stage Women's War Relief Stage Women's War Relief was founded in 1917 to organize charitable giving in support of the war effort. Its founders, led by playwright and director Rachel Crothers, included the actress and playwright Louise Closser Hale and actresses Dorothy Donnelly, Josephine Hull, Minnie Dupree, Elizabeth Tyree and Louise Drew. The organization established workrooms for sewing uniforms and other garments (with total output totaling 1,863,645 articles), set up clothing and food collection centers, sold Liberty Bonds, and opened a canteen on Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JCPenney
Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Girls, Baby, Bedding, Home, Fine Jewelry, Shoes, Lingerie, ''The Salon by InStyle'', ''Sephora inside JCPenney'', as well as leased departments such as Seattle's Best Coffee, US Vision optical centers, and Lifetouch portrait studios. Most JCPenney stores were initially located in downtown areas, but, as shopping malls grew in popularity during the 1960s, the chain began relocating and developing stores to anchor the malls. In recent years, JCP has opened stores in power centers, as well as stand-alone stores, sometimes adjacent to competitors. The company has been an Internet retailer since 1998, and it has streamlined its catalog and distribution while undergoing renovation improvements at store level. In May 2020, JCPenney filed for Chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: ''Morocco'' (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), ''Dishonored'' (1931), '' Shanghai Express'' and ''Blonde Venus'' (both 1932), ''The Scarlet Empress'' (1934) and '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935), ''Desire'' (1936) and ''Destry Rides Again'' (1939). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice B
Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor * ''Alice'' (Hermann book), a 2009 short story collection by Judith Hermann Computers * Alice (computer chip), a graphics engine chip in the Amiga computer in 1992 * Alice (programming language), a functional programming language designed by the Programming Systems Lab at Saarland University * Alice (software), an object-oriented programming language and IDE developed at Carnegie Mellon * Alice mobile robot * Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, an open-source chatterbot * Matra Alice, a home micro-computer marketed in France * Alice, a brand name used by Telecom Italia for internet and telephone services Video games * '' Alice: An Interactive Museum'', a 1991 adventure game * ''American McGee's Alice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.BBC Culture:Cath Pound. July 26, 2021. The shocking memoir of the 'lost generation'. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210726-the-scandalous-memoir-of-the-lost-generation In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, ''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'', written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album '' Jazz Samba'', a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music. Byrd played fingerstyle on a classical guitar. Early life Charlie Byrd was born in 1925 in Suffolk, Virginia, and grew up in the borough of Chuckatuck. His father, a mandolinist and guitarist, taught him how to play the acoustic steel guitar at age 10. Byrd had three brothers, Oscar, Jack, and Gene "Joe" Byrd, who was a bass player. In 1942, Byrd entered the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and played in the school orchestra. In 1943, he was drafted into the United States Army, saw combat in World War II, and was stationed in Paris in 1945. There he played in an Army Special Services band and toured occupied Europe in the all-soldier production '' G.I. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredd Wayne As Carmen In "G
Fred can be a given name or a surname. Given name Fred can be an either a given name in its own right or the diminutive form of the given names Frederick, Alfred, Manfred, or Wilfred. Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of French comics creator Fred Othon Aristidès * Fred (footballer, born 1979) Helbert Frederico Carreiro da Silva, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1983) Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1986) Frederico Burgel Xavier, Brazilian footballer * Fred (footballer, born 1993) Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos, Brazilian footballer * Fred la marmotte (Fred the groundhog), Canadian groundhog who predicts weather on Groundhog Day A * Fred Aandahl (other), multiple people * Fred Abbott (1874–1935), American baseball catcher * Fred Abel (1903–1980), American football player * Fred Abraham Jr. (1886–1918), British Guianese cricketer * Fred Abraham Sr. (1859–?), British Guianese cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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