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Jo-Carroll Dennison
Jo-Carroll Dennison (December 16, 1923 – October 18, 2021) was an American actress and model who was Miss America 1942. Early years Dennison was born on December 16, 1923, in Florence, Arizona, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Brownd) and Harry Arthur Dennison, who ran a travelling medicine show in Texas. She was born in the infirmary of a men's state prison in Arizona, delivered by the prison doctor as he was the only medical help her travelling parents could find. Her father had wanted her to be born in California so the couple had been driving west from Texas when her mother went into labour. Her family later lived in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, California, and Tyler, Texas. She graduated from Hale Center High School in 1940, and was a stenographer in Tyler. Pageantry Dennison was crowned Miss America September 12, 1942, after having entered the contest as Miss Texas. She had earlier won both the talent and the swimsuit competitions in the contest. As Miss America dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence, Arizona
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation. The main symptoms include shortness of breath and a cough, which may or may not produce mucus. COPD progressively worsens, with everyday activities such as walking or dressing becoming difficult. While COPD is incurable, it is preventable and treatable. The two most common conditions of COPD are emphysema and chronic bronchitis and they have been the two classic COPD phenotypes. Emphysema is defined as enlarged airspaces ( alveoli) whose walls have broken down resulting in permanent damage to the lung tissue. Chronic bronchitis is defined as a productive cough that is present for at least three months each year for two years. Both of these conditions can exist without airflow limitation when they are not classed as COPD. Emphysema is just one of the structural abnormalities that can limit airflow and can exist without ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Texas
The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1937 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America (but none since 1975). To become Miss Texas, a contestant must first win a local competition. A young woman may compete at the local and state level more than once, but may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. Hundreds of women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who compete for the Miss Texas title each July. The state pageant was held in Fort Worth for 36 years before relocating to the University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall in 2009. In 2012, the pageant moved to the Allen Event Center in suburban Collin County. In 2014 the Miss Texas pageant began being held at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson, Texas. In 2010, Miss Texas celebrated its 75th anniversary, and Randy Prue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Rides The Carousel
''Everybody Rides the Carousel'' is a 1975 independent animated film about the stages of life. It was directed by John Hubley and written and produced by Hubley and his wife Faith. Among the cast are Meryl Streep, Dinah Manoff, and Lane Smith and other members of the Hubley Family. The film was broadcast on television by CBS on September 10, 1976. Cicely Tyson hosts the special. Cast Prologue *Alvin Epstein Stage 1 *Judith Coburn *Ray Hubley *Lou Jacobi *Lane Smith *Eleanor Wilson Stage 2 *Georgia Hubley *Linda Washburn *Maura Washburn *Michael Washburn Stage 3 *Emily Hubley *Bruce E. Smith *Jane E. Smith Stage 4 *Leeds Atkinson *Jenny Lumet Stage 5 *Jo-Carroll Dennison Stage 6 * Charles Levin *Meryl Streep Stage 7 *Per Bloland *Dee Dee Bridgewater *Tulani Bridgewater *Pablo Casals *Dinah Manoff *Florence Miller *George Miller *Lawrence Pressman * John Randolph *Lanna Saunders *William Watts Stage 8 *Harry Edison *Jack Gilford *Jane Hoffman *Juanita Moore Juanita Moore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Millionaire For Christy
''A Millionaire for Christy'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker and Richard Carlson. The film is a screwball comedy, in which Christy Sloane (Parker) is a legal secretary from San Francisco who is sent to Los Angeles to inform radio host Peter Lockwood (MacMurray) that he has just inherited $2 million. Plot Christabel "Christy" Sloane (Parker) is a legal secretary in San Francisco whose desire for finer things is at odds with her desperate financial straits, causing her to lament to her coworker Patsy (Una Merkel) that she needs to find a millionaire to marry. Her boss orders Christy to go to Los Angeles to inform Peter Ulysses Lockwood (MacMurray) of an inheritance of 28,000,000 pesos ($2,000,000) that a deceased uncle has bequeathed him and obtain the necessary legal documents. The pragmatic Patsy sees the assignment as the opportunity Christy has been waiting for and counsels her to romance the heir before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickup (1951 Film)
''Pickup'' is a 1951 American film noir written and directed by Czech actor and filmmaker Hugo Haas. It was the first American film by Haas, a refugee from German-occupied Europe, who went on to make a series of gloomy noirs about doomed middle-aged men led astray by younger femmes fatales. Haas also starred in the film, alongside Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlain. Plot Low-budget ''Pickup'', based on a 1926 novel ''Guard No. 47'' by Josef Kopta, contains a plot that is similar to that of the 1946 film '' The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1946), based on James M Cain's 1934 novel of the same name, but according to Larry Langman, "a poor man's version". Haas plays Jan "Hunky" Horak, a hard-of-hearing railroad dispatcher who lives in a poor neighborhood by the railroad tracks and is seduced by Betty (Michaels), who is after his money. After they marry, Betty and her lover Steve Kowalski (Nixon) scheme to murder him. But in a chance accident, Jan regains his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of Beauty
''Secrets of Beauty'' (also titled ''Why Men Leave Home'') is a 1951 American drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Ern Westmore, Julie Bishop (actress), Julie Bishop, Richard Denning. The film was released on DVD in 2006. Cast *Julie Bishop (actress), Julie Bishop as Ruth Waldron *Richard Denning as Dr. John Waldron *Ginger Prince as Ginger Waldron *Ern Westmore as Himself *Norma Gilchrist as Herself *Virginia Herrick as Betty Westmore *Larry Blake (actor), Larry Blake as Uncle Marty *Jo-Carroll Dennison as Herself *Myrna Dell as Kay Joyce *Jonnie Lee Macfadden as Jonnie Lee *Arthur Lee Simpkins as Himself References External links * * * {{Erle C. Kenton 1951 drama films 1951 films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton 1950s English-language films 1950s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Women (1950 Film)
''Prehistoric Women'' is a 1950 low-budget fantasy adventure film, written and directed by Gregg G. Tallas and starring Laurette Luez and Allan Nixon. It also features Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon, and Mara Lynn. Released by Alliance Productions, the independent film was also titled ''The Virgin Goddess''. The film was later distributed in the United States as a double feature with ''Man Beast''.McGee, Mark Thomas; Robertson, R.J. (2013). "You Won't Believe Your Eyes". Bear Manor Media. . Page 254 ''Prehistoric Women'' is similar to the 1940 film ''One Million B.C.'' The film also acts as somewhat of a spiritual predecessor to the 1967 film of the same name (sometimes known as ''Slave Girls'') starring Martine Beswick, although the two are otherwise unrelated. Plot Tigri (Luez) and her Stone Age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a "necessary evil" and capture them as potential husbands. Engor (Nixon), who is smarter th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Purple Hills
''Beyond the Purple Hills'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by John English and written by Norman S. Hall. The film stars Gene Autry, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Don Beddoe, James Millican, Don Reynolds and Hugh O'Brian. The film was released on July 25, 1950, by Columbia Pictures. Plot When a bank robbery results in the death of the sheriff, Judge Beaumont (Roy Gordon) asks horse trainer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) to take the sheriff's place. Gene, who has helped Beaumont deal with his fractious son, Jack (Hugh O'Brian), agrees. Beaumont then reveals that he wants to rewrite his will to leave Jack out, prompting a fight between father and son. When the judge is murdered soon after, Gene is forced to arrest Jack, despite not believing that he is guilty. Cast * Gene Autry as Gene Autry * Jo-Carroll Dennison as Mollie Rayburn *Don Beddoe as Amos Rayburn *James Millican as Rocky Morgan * Don Reynolds as Chip Beaumont *Hugh O'Brian as Jack Beaumont *Roy Gordon as Judge Beaumont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Missing Lady
''The Missing Lady'' is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Kane Richmond and Barbara Read. It was the third and final in a series of three films released by Monogram in 1946 starring Richmond as The Shadow, the others being ''The Shadow Returns'' and '' Behind The Mask''. Synopsis Lamont Cranston, alias The Shadow, investigates when an art dealer is murdered and his valuable jade statuette is stolen. Cast *Kane Richmond as Lamont Cranston (The Shadow) *Barbara Read as Margo Lane * Pierre Watkin as Commissioner Weston *Claire Carleton as Rose Dawson *Garry Owen as Johnson Reception Critic Leonard Maltin Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives. He is perhaps best known for his book of fi ... wrote that of the three Monogram ''Shadow'' films released in 1946, ''The Missing Lady'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (1945 Film)
''State Fair'' is a 1945 American Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang with original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is a musical adaptation of the 1933 film of the same name starring Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers, itself an adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong. The 1945 film stars Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Fay Bainter, and Charles Winninger. ''State Fair'' was remade in 1962, that time starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margret. ''State Fair'' was the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written directly for film. The movie introduced such popular songs as "It's A Grand Night For Singing" and "It Might as Well Be Spring", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Joint musical direction was by Alfred Newman and Charles E. Henderson of orchestral arrangements principally by Edward B. Powell. This Rodgers and Hammerstein's original musical film was first adapted for the stage in 1969, for a production at The Muny in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something For The Boys (film)
''Something for the Boys'' is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler. It stars Carmen Miranda, with Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan and Perry Como. The screenplay was by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Frank Gabrielson, based on the 1943 Broadway Musical of the same name, starring Ethel Merman with Cole Porter's songs. The film's story revolves around the adventures of three cousins who find themselves joint heirs to an abandoned mansion in Masonville, Georgia. Chiquita Hart, played by Miranda, Harry (Phil Silvers) and Blossom (Vivian Blaine) leave their jobs, and decide to reform the place and rent it for military spouses who are in the war front, combining the hostel service to performers shows. Judy Holliday can be spotted in a brief role six minutes into the film. This is her third film. Plot After cousins actress Blossom Hart (Vivian Blaine), defense plant worker Chiquita Hart (Carmen Miranda) and inventor Harry Hart (Phil Silvers) e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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