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Joe Jenkins (dancer)
Joe Jenkins was an American dancer who moved to Australia and appeared in a number of TV plays. He was a rare black actor who played lead roles in Australian film industry at the time. He was the first black actor to play a lead role in an Australian TV drama. Jenkins came to Australia with the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and decided to stay. He made his acting debut in ''The Square Ring''. Select filmography *''Rita'' (1959) - TV opera *''Make Outs Music'' (1959) - variety *''Cafe Continental'' *'' The BP Super Show'' (1959) - variety show, guest star *''The Square Ring'' (1960) *''The Emperor Jones'' (1960) *'' The Two Headed Eagle'' (1960) *'' The End Begins'' (1961) *''Call Me a Liar'' (1961) *''Just Barbara'' (1961) and ''Chez Barbara'' - variety show starring Barbara Virgil - Jenkins was a regular performer References External linksJoe Jenkinsat AusstageJoe Jenkinsat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita (1959 Film)
''Rita'' is a 1959 Australian television play starring Rosalind Keene. It is a recording of an opera by Donizetti. It was directed by Alan Burke, one of several operas he directed for the ABC that year. Cast *Joe Jenkins *Rosalind Keene as Rita *Ereach Riley as Beppo *Russell Smith as Gasparo See also *List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s) A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ... References External links * Australian television films Australian television plays based on operas Films directed by Alan Burke (director) {{Australia-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BP Super Show
The ''BP Super Show'' was an Australian television series of loosely scheduled TV specials often of the variety show genre (but not always), which aired from circa 1959 to circa 1970. The programs often featured international performers that were touring Australia. It originally aired on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne, with the production of episodes varying between the two stations, and it also aired on other stations across Australia (this was prior to the formation of the Seven Network and Nine Network). It aired on the Nine Network after the formation of that network. Given the varied nature of the episodes, critical reception varied, but was often very positive, with a 1961 episode with Ella Fitzgerald being called by ''The Age'' newspaper "one of the best shows of its type presented on Melbourne TV". Several episodes have been released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment. Episodes include: * 1961: Ella Fitzgerald *1962: Margot Fonteyn *1962: Moscow State Variety Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Square Ring (play)
''The Square Ring'' is a 1952 play by Ralph Peterson. Premise The story of several boxers who are fighting on the one night. They include Docker Starkie, a boxer making a comeback. Background Peterson wrote an Australian radio play about boxing, '' Come Out Fighting'' which aired in 1950. Peterson moved to London in 1951 and wrote a stage version, ''The Square Ring'', over a three-month period. He sent the play to Anthony Quayle, whom he had met in Sydney when Quayle was touring with the Stratford Players (Quayle had appeared in a radio play written by Peterson about Aboriginal issues, "The Problem of Johnny Flourcake"). Quayle was going to put it on himself but then accepted another theatrical tour of Australia so he passed it to H. M. Tennents, the London theatre agency, who agreed to produce it. After several weeks of rehearsal, the play premiered in Brighton in September 1952 with a mostly male cast but one female, the wife of the central character. Peterson said "the play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Emperor Jones (1960 TV Play)
''The Emperor Jones'' is a 1960 Australian TV play based on the play ''The Emperor Jones'' by Eugene O'Neill. It starred Joe Jenkins, a dancer who was living in Australia. He played a triple role. Joe Jenkins was a rare black actor who played lead roles in Australia at the time; he had also appeared in ''The Square Ring'', ''Cafe Continental'', ''The BP Super Show'', '' The Two Headed Eagle'' and '' The End Begins'' on Australian TV. ''The Emperor Jones'' has been called the first Australian TV drama to have a black actor in the lead. Plot Jones runs an "empire" on an island in the West Indies. The action begins when Smithers, a trader, arrives on the island to discover Jones' subjects have revolted and Jones has to escape. Jones is terrified of the pursuing natives. He has nightmares where he meets Jeff, the man he killed in a razor fight, and another man he killed with a shovel. The nightmare then becomes a medium of regression. Jones goes beyond his own past until he finds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Headed Eagle
In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle (or double-eagle) is a charge associated with the concept of Empire. Most modern uses of the symbol are directly or indirectly associated with its use by the late Byzantine Empire, originally a dynastic emblem of the Palaiologoi. It was adopted during the Late Medieval to Early Modern period in the Holy Roman Empire on the one hand, and in Orthodox principalities (Serbia and Russia) on the other, representing an augmentation of the (single-headed) eagle or '' Aquila'' associated with the Roman Empire. In a few places, among them the Holy Roman Empire and Russia, the motif was further augmented to create the less prominent triple-headed eagle. The motif has predecessors in Bronze Age art, found in Illyria, Mycenaean Greece, and in the Ancient Near East, especially in Hittite iconography. It re-appeared during the High Middle Ages, from around the 10th or 11th centuries, and was notably used by the Eastern Roman Empire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Begins (film)
''The End Begins'' is a 1961 Australian television play shot in ABC's Melbourne studios. Like many early Australian TV plays it was based on an overseas script. It was a rare Australian TV play with a science fiction theme and a black lead actor, although no recordings are thought to have survived. Plot On an island off the west coast of Great Britain, a group of survivors of World War Three struggle to continue living. Hugh Packenham foresaw the oncoming conflict and fled to the island. His only neighbours are fisherman Shaun O'Donnell and his wife Barbara. Then other survivors seek refuge, including an African American sailor, and conflicts develop. Cast *Don Crosby as Hugh Pakenham *Joe Jenkins as Hank Christians, an American serviceman *Douglas Kelly as Shaun O'Donnell *Barbara Brandon as Mrs O'Donnell *Fay Kelton as Valerie Hollis, a young English girl *Keith Hudson as Tom Jarrow, a bank clerk *Syd Conabere as Dr Wincot *Kenrick Hudson as Commander Ridgwell *James Lynch as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Me A Liar
''Call Me a Liar'' is a 1961 Australian TV play. It was shot in Melbourne in studio with some location work. It was Channel 2's 49th live play. Plot Sammy Moles lives in a world of make believe. For his employer's benefit he invents a wife and child and for his fellow lodgers he lies about his past, background and job. He meets a German girl called Martha. Cast * David Mitchell as Sammy Moles * Jane Oehr as Martha *Barbara Brandon as landlady *Campbell Copelin as man on park bench * Rose du Clos as lady boarder *Ken Goodlet as Mr Pheeming *Joe Jenkins as Dr Bowker * James Lynch as solitary drinker * Stewart Weller as street musician *Ligia Monamis as Indian girl *Nancy Cato and Peter Oliver as English couple * Abdul Ghani as an African *Ron Pinnell as father *Reginald Newsom as businessman * Cecile Glass as Finnish girl * Margherita Kean as bar girl * Shirley Young as mother Production It was based on a TV play by John Mortimer which had been performed in England in 1958. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Barbara
''Just Barbara'' is an Australian television series which aired in Melbourne on ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ... during 1961. Starring U.S. entertainer Barbara Virgil, it was a half-hour variety series.{{cite web, title=Virgil, url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u55VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UrMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4854%2C1558629, website=news.google.com, accessdate=23 December 2016 Regulars in the series included Joe Jenkins, Abe Jensen, and the ABC Melbourne Dance Band. References External links''Just Barbara'' on IMDb 1961 Australian television series debuts 1961 Australian television series endings Black-and-white Australian television shows English-language television shows Australian variety television shows Australian Broadcasting Corporation original prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ausstage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
