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It Happens Every Thursday
''It Happens Every Thursday'' is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Loretta Young, John Forsythe, and Frank McHugh, loosely based on the 1951 autobiographical book of the same title by Jane S. McIlvaine. It was Loretta Young's final theater-released film, as she switched to television work after this movie. The film cost $617,085 to make, with Young receiving $75,000 for her appearance. After ''It Happens Every Thursday'', Young took a 33 year hiatus from film work of any kind until 1986 when she starred in the TV movie ''Christmas Eve'' directed by Stuart Cooper. Plot A married couple, Bob and Jane MacAvoy (Loretta Young and John Forsythe), and their son, Stevie (Harvey Grant), sell everything and move out to California to buy and start up a newspaper company, the Eden Archive. To the surprise of the MacAvoys, the Eden Archive is a bit worse for wear. A pregnant Jane MacAvoy begins to go into labor and gives birth in the upstairs of the Eden Archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pevney
Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director. ''Los Angeles Times'', May 29, 2008 Biography Born in New York City, Pevney made his debut in as a boy soprano in 1924. Although he hated vaudeville, he loved the theatre and developed a career as a stage actor, appearing in such plays as ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while those using mathematical models and knowledge to prepare daily weather forecasts are called ''weather forecasters'' or ''operational meteorologists''. Meteorologists work in government agencies, private consulting and research services, industrial enterprises, utilities, radio and television stations, and in education. They are not to be confused with weather presenters, who present the weather forecast in the media and range in training from journalists having just minimal training in meteorology to full fledged meteorologists. Description Meteorologists study the Earth's atmosphere and its interactions with the Earth's surface, the oceans and the biosphere. Their knowledge of applied mathematics and physics allows them to understand the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture Herald
The ''Motion Picture Herald'' was an American film industry trade paper published from 1931 to December 1972.Anthony Slide, ed. (1985)''International Film, Radio, and Television Journals'' Greenwood Press. p. 242. It was replaced by the ''QP Herald'', which only lasted until May 1973.Robert A. Osborone (1973)''Academy Awards Oscar Annual'' ESE California. p. 10. It was established as the ''Exhibitors Herald'' in 1915. History The paper's origins begin 1915 when a Chicago printing company launched a film publication as a regional trade paper for exhibitors in the Midwest and known as ''Exhibitors Herald''. Publisher Martin Quigley bought the paper and over the following two decades developed the ''Exhibitors Herald'' into a national trade paper for the US film industry. In 1917, Quigley acquired and merged another publication, ''Motography'', into his magazine. In 1927, he further acquired and merged the magazine ''The Moving Picture World'' and began publishing it as ''Exhibitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrison's Reports
''Harrison's Reports'' was a New York City-based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962. The typical issue was four letter-size pages sent to subscribers under a second-class mail permit. Its founder, editor and publisher was P. S. Harrison (1880–1966), who previously had been a reviewer for ''Motion Picture News'', in which his column was titled "Harrison’s Exhibitor Reviews". The first issue, dated 5 July 1919, stated that film advertising would not be accepted. A year's subscription cost $10. For more than a year, the type was set by a typewriter. The issue of 4 December 1920 and all subsequent issues were professionally typeset. The masthead of 1 January 1921 proclaimed itself ::FREE FROM THE INFLUENCE OF ADVERTISING In later years, that slogan was changed to ::A REVIEWING SERVICE FREE FROM THE INFLUENCE OF FILM ADVERTISING During its 44 calendar years of operation, more than 2,200 issues of ''Harrison’s Reports'' were published. Approximately 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Waller
Edward Carlingford Waller (June 14, 1889 – August 20, 1977) was an American stage, film and television actor. Early years Born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, he was a son of the Rev. Thomas M. Waller, a Presbyterian minister, and Anna Taylor Waller, his wife; his parents were originally from England. Eddy Waller's involvement with dramatics began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin. Career Stage Waller performed in vaudeville and the legitimate theater before he entered films in Hollywood. His professional stage debut came in Chicago, Illinois. An item published in ''The Indianapolis News'' May 3, 1923, reported, "He has had several years' experience as leading man and also as director, and produces the Grand Players' plays as well as taking the leading roles." Waller became noted for his character impersonations of elderly men on stage and screen. Film Waller appeared in more than 250 sound films between 1929 and 1963 (Thomas M. Feramisco, in his book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Clark (actor)
Edward Clark (May 6, 1878 – November 18, 1954) was a Russian-born American actor whose career began in the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1913 and 1955. He was also a playwright, theatre director and songwriter. Among his songs was the original 1899 barbershop quartet song ''Heart of My Heart''. He was born in Russia and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Works Selected filmography * ''Graft'' (1915, Serial) – Grant Fisher * '' The Iron Hand'' (1916) – Jerry Simpson * ''The Bronze Bride'' (1917) – William Ogden * '' Eternal Love'' (1917) – François Gautier * ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin'' (1918) – Gen. Erich von Falkenhagen * ''Millionaires'' (1926) * ''Broken Hearts of Hollywood'' (1926, scenario) * '' Sally in Our Alley'' (1927, scenario) * '' Finger Prints'' (1927, scenario) * ''Hills of Kentucky'' (1927, scenario) * ''Marriage by Contract'' (1928) * '' Unmasked'' (1929, scenario) * ''King Kong'' (1933) – Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Card
Kathryn Card (October 4, 1892 – March 1, 1964) was an American radio, television, and film actress who may be best remembered for her role as Mrs. McGillicuddy, Lucy's mother on ''I Love Lucy''. Radio Born in Butte, Montana one of the four children Richard Sheehan and Esther McCurdy, both from Ireland, as Catherine Rose Sheehan, Card did radio roles in the late 1930s, notably '' Uncle Walter's Doghouse'', broadcast on NBC from 1939 to 1942. She played Grandma Barton in ''The Bartons'' from December 25, 1939 to September 11, 1942, and played three roles (Carrie, Sue, and Bess) on ''Just Neighbors'' May 30-September 23, 1938.Cox, Jim (2005). ''Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas''. Scarecrow Press, Inc. . Pp. 39, 117. In 1943, she was a cast member of ''Helpmate'', a daytime serial on NBC. In the late 1930s, she also was in that network's ''Story of Mary Marlin.'' She was also a member of the casts of ''Girl Alone'' and ''The Woman in White''.Sies, Luther F. (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regis Toomey
John Francis Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Early life Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey, and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Career Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, Toomey began as a stock actor and eventually made it to Broadway. Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems (acute laryngitis) while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. In 1929, he appeared in his first films, starting out as a leading man, but finding more success as a character actor, ''sans'' his toupee. In 1941, Toomey appeared in ''You're in the Army Now'', in which Jane Wyman and he had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds. In 1956, Toomey was cast as the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Conlin
Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career. Career Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, where he and his wife Myrtle Glass played the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuits billed as "Conlin & Glass," a song-and-dance team.Erickson, HaBiography (Allmovie)/ref> They also starred together in two short films, ''Sharps and Flats'' (1928) and ''Zip! Boom! Bang!'' (1929) for Vitaphone. These early shorts display Conlin's musical talents, including his impressive skills at the piano. In later years Conlin became strictly a character comedian, with little opportunity to show his vaudeville skills. Jimmy Conlin made another comedy short without Glass in 1930 (''A Tight Squeeze''), but his film career started in earnest in 1933, and for the next 27 years, with the single exception of 1951, every year saw the release of at least one film in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard; October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than 100 major movies spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath'', for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Born to William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen Booth Woodard in Palmyra, Missouri, Darwell originally intended to become a circus rider, then later an opera singer. Her father, however, objected to those career plans, so she compromised by becoming an actress, changing her name to Darwell to avoid sullying the family name. The Jane Darwell Birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Woodard vs. Woodward Some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Palmer
Palmer Edwin Lee (January 25, 1927 – October 31, 2015), known by his stage name Gregg Palmer, was an American film and television actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Palmer served in the United States Army Air Corps as a cryptographer in World War II. He began his acting career in 1950 with the uncredited role of an ambulance driver in the film ''My Friend Irma Goes West''. Palmer guest-starred in numerous television programs, including ''Gunsmoke'', '' Bonanza'', ''Wagon Train'', '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', '' The Virginian'', ''The Wild Wild West'', '' Rawhide'', ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', '' Mannix'', '' Mission: Impossible'' and ''Death Valley Days''. He also appeared in films, including ''Big Jake'', ''Magnificent Obsession'', '' To Hell and Back'', ''The Shootist'', ''The Rebel Set'', ''Zombies of Mora Tau'', ''Taza, Son of Cochise'', ''Francis Goes to West Point'' and ''The Creature Walks Among Us''. Palmer played Tom McLowery in the western televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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