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Margie (TV Series)
''Margie'' is an American television sitcom starring Cynthia Pepper that was broadcast on ABC from October 12, 1961 to August 31, 1962. Premise ''Margie'' was set in the Roaring Twenties. Margie Clayton lived with her parents, a little brother, and an aunt. Maybelle Jackson (her best friend) was a flapper. Two boys, Heywood Batts and Johnny Green, vied for Margie's affection. The locale was Madison, a small town "somewhere in New England". The series was adapted from the 1946 film of the same name starring Jeanne Crain. Larry Klein, one of the producers, said, "We have preferred to create our own family and situations rather than rely on fixed characters created by someone else." Among the differences, the film had Margie living with her grandmother because her mother had died when the title character was a little girl. Cast *Cynthia Pepper as Margie Clayton *Dave Willock as Harvey Clayton *Wesley Tackitt as Nora Clayton *Tommy Ivo as Haywood Botts *Penney Parker as Maybelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Little Margie
''My Little Margie'' is an American television situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California, at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach Jr., and Roland D. Reed. ''My Little Margie'' premiered on CBS as a summer replacement for ''I Love Lucy'' on June 16, 1952, under the sponsorship of Philip Morris cigarettes (when the series moved to NBC for its third season in the fall of 1953, Scott Paper Company became its sponsor). In an unusual move, the series—with the same leads—aired original episodes on CBS Radio, concurrently with the TV broadcasts, from December 1952 through August 1955. Only 23 radio broadcasts are known to exist in recorded form. Synopsis Set in New York City, the series stars Gale Storm as 21-year-old Margie Albright and former silent film star Charles Farrell as her widowed father, 50-year-old Vern Albright. They share an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Crain
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her title role in '' Pinky'' (1949). She also starred in the films ''In the Meantime, Darling'' (1944), ''State Fair'' (1945), ''Leave Her to Heaven'' (1945), ''Centennial Summer'' (1946), ''Margie'' (1946), '' Apartment for Peggy'' (1948), ''A Letter to Three Wives'' (1949), ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' (1950), ''People Will Talk'' (1951), ''Man Without a Star'' (1955), ''Gentlemen Marry Brunettes'' (1955), ''The Fastest Gun Alive'' (1956), and ''The Joker Is Wild'' (1957). Early life Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a schoolteacher, and Loretta Carr, who were Irish Catholics. By 1930, they were living in Inglewood, California at 822 S. Walnut Avenue. When her parents divorced in 1934, the family of three moved to 5817 Van Ness Ave in Los Angeles. An excellent ice skater, Crain first attracted attention when she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Tolkin
Mel Tolkin ( Shmuel Tolchinsky; August 3, 1913 – November 26, 2007) was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the live sketch comedy series ''Your Show of Shows'' (NBC, 1950–1954) during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Danny Simon. The writers' room inspired the film ''My Favorite Year'' (1982), produced by Brooks, and the Broadway play ''Laughter on the 23rd Floor'' (1993), written by Neil Simon. Tolkin, who won an Emmy Award and every other major prize for television writing, was the father of screenwriter-novelist Michael Tolkin and TV writer-director Stephen Tolkin. Biography Early life and career Mel Tolkin was born Shmuel Tolchinsky (russian: Тол(ь)чинский, cog. Тульчинский, uk, Толчинський, pl, Tolczyński, cog. Tulczyński, means "from Tuľčyn") in a Jewish shtetl near Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Rhine
Larry Rhine (May 26, 1910 – October 27, 2000) was an American producer and screenwriter. Early life Rhine was born in San Francisco, California to Elias, a real estate broker and Ester, a homemaker. He had a sister, Loretta Rhine. Rhine attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1931. Career Rhine started his career as an announcer, writer and producer on KGB radio, working with Art Linkletter. In 1936 he moved on to work as a screenwriter for Universal and 20th Century Fox. He also wrote columns for the newspaper ''The Californian''. In the 1940s and 1950s Rhine worked on radio programs including ''The Life of Riley'', ''Private Secretary'' and ''Duffy's Tavern'', among others. In the 1960s to 1970s Rhine wrote episodes for television programs including ''Mister Ed'', ''The Red Skelton Hour'', '' Bachelor Father'', ''The Tom Ewell Show'' and ''The Bob Hope Show''. In 1963, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Styler
Burt Malcolm Styler (February 20, 1925 – June 13, 2011) was an American television and film screenwriter and producer. His film credits include Bob Hope comedy '' Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!'' and such popular TV series as ''The Life of Riley'', ''My Favorite Martian'', ''Mayberry R.F.D.'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''McHale's Navy'', ''Chico and The Man'', ''M*A*S*H'', ''The Carol Burnett Show'', and ''Too Close For Comfort''. He wrote the teleplay/scripts for four of the popular CBS-TV sitcom series ''All in the Family ''All in the Family'' is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. Afterwards, it was continued with the spin-off series '' Archie Bunker's Place'', which picked up where ''All in ...'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1972, for writing the episode "Edith's Problem". Styler died of heart failure on June 13, 2011, at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center. References Interview condu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dell Publishing
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, that was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000 (approx. $145,000 in 2021), two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about films, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day). During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included '' 1000 Jokes'', launched in 1938. From 1929 to 1974, they published comics under the Dell Comics line, the bulk of which (1938–68) was done in partnership with Western Publishing. In 1943, Dell entered into paperback book publishing with Dell Paperbacks. They also used the book imprints of Dial Press, Delacorte Books, Delacorte Press, Yearling Books, and Laurel Leaf Library. Dell was acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie (song)
"Margie", also known as "My Little Margie", is a 1920 popular song composed in collaboration by vaudeville performer and pianist Con Conrad and ragtime pianist J. Russel Robinson, a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Lyrics were written by Benny Davis, a vaudeville performer and songwriter. The song was introduced by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1920 as Victor 78, 18717-A, in a medley paired with "Singin' the Blues". The B side was " Palesteena". The ODJB recorded their instrumental version on December 1, 1920. Other popular versions in 1920-21 were by Gene Rodemich; Eddie Cantor; Ted Lewis; and Frank Crumit. The Rega Dance Orchestra recorded the song in October, 1920 for Okeh Records, 4211. The song was published in 1920 and was named after the five-year-old daughter of singer and songwriter Eddie Cantor. Cantor is credited with popularizing the song with his 1921 recording that stayed at the top of the pop charts for five weeks. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sher
John Jacob Sher (16 March 1913 – 23 August 1988) was an American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer, and producer. Career Born in Minneapolis, Sher wrote for several magazines, including the '' Saturday Evening Post,'' ''Esquire,'' ''Redbook,'' '' Radio Mirror,'' ''Reader's Digest,'' and '' Collier's.'' He also had been a columnist for the ''New York Reporter'', and from 1937 to 1940 '' Screen & Radio Weekly,'' a nationally syndicated Sunday supplement published by the ''Detroit Free Press.'' Sher wrote a number of films for Audie Murphy, including in 1959, ''The Wild and the Innocent,'' which he also directed. In the 1979 remake for TV, '' The Kid from Left Field,'' Gary Coleman (1968–2010), who starred in the series, accepted the NAACP Image Award for Best Children's Special of Episode in a Series. Sher's 1971–1972 television play, ''Goodbye, Raggedy Ann'' was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Original Telep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sheldon
Leonard James Schleifer (November 12, 1920 – March 12, 2016) was an American television director. Sheldon directed for television programs including ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', ''The Fugitive (1963 TV series), The Fugitive'', ''The Donna Reed Show'', ''The Millionaire (TV series), The Millionaire'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Route 66 (TV series), Route 66'', ''The Love Boat'', ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''Gunsmoke#Television series (1955–1975) and TV movies, Gunsmoke'', ''Bridget Loves Bernie'', ''Room 222'', ''Harbor Command'', ''Love, American Style'', ''The Waltons'', ''The Virginian (TV series), The Virginian'', ''That Girl''. ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''My Three Sons'', ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Naked City (TV series), Naked City'' and ''Sledge Hammer!''. He died in March 2016 at his home in Manhattan, New York from complications of cancer, at the age of 95. In an interview with novelist Matthew Rettenmun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Richardson (director)
Don Richardson (April 30, 1918 – January 10, 1996) was an American actor, director, acting teacher, as well as an author. Career Richardson was an original member of the Group Theatre, which was the nucleus of Acting in the United States. His fellow Group Theatre members included Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and Uta Hagen, although Richardson was the only student who said, "The Method isn’t what acting is about." Richardson directed three Broadway productions and over 800 television shows, including ''Get Smart'' (TV series) (1965), '' One Day at a Time'' (TV series) (1975–1976), ''Lost in Space'' (TV series) (1966–1968), '' The Defenders'' (TV series) (1961–1963), and ''Bonanza'' (TV series) (1968–1971). His work remains in the permanent collection of The Museum of Broadcasting, The Jewish Museum of New York, and UCLA Film and Television Archive. Richardson taught acting at UCLA, Colombia’s Barnard College and American Academy of Dramatic Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Reynolds
Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal (April 4, 1923 – February 3, 2020) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He was one of the developers and producers of the TV series ''M*A*S*H''. Early life Reynolds was born on April 4, 1923, to Frank Eugene Blumenthal, a businessman and entrepreneur, and Maude Evelyn (Schwab) Blumenthal, a model, in Cleveland, Ohio. Reynolds initially was raised in Detroit, before the family relocated to Los Angeles in 1934. Reynolds served in the United States Navy during World War II. He served on ships including a destroyer-minesweeper the USS ''Zane''. Following the war, Reynolds received a degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and resumed his acting career. Career Acting Reynolds made his screen debut in the 1934 ''Our Gang'' short ''Washee Ironee'', and for the next three decades made numerous appearances in films such as ''Captains Courageous'' (1937), ''Love Finds Andy Hardy'' (1938), '' Boys Town'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
