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Marshall Kent (actor)
Marshall Kent (October 6, 1908 – January 15, 1985) was an American television and film actor who appeared in 30 television series or films between 1956 and 1977. He was best known for his role as "Doc" in the 1958 spoof of ''Gunsmoke'' presented as an episode of ''Maverick'' starring James Garner entitled "Gun-Shy." Career Kent appeared in various other television series including '' Dragnet'' with Jack Webb, ''Perry Mason'' with Raymond Burr, ''The Deputy'' with Henry Fonda, '' The Gray Ghost'' with Broderick Crawford, '' Dennis the Menace'' with Robert Young, ''Room 222'', ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' and ''Little House on the Prairie''. He was also a supporting player in films including '' The Decks Ran Red'' with James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge, ''Ring of Fire'' with David Janssen, and ''The Last Voyage'' with Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone Dorothy Malone (born Mary Dorothy Maloney; January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverick (TV Series)
''Maverick'' is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962 on ABC. Overview ''Maverick'' initially starred James Garner as poker player Bret Maverick. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and for the remainder of the first three seasons, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Maverick brothers were both poker players from Texas who traveled the American Old West by horseback and stagecoach, and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wonderful World Of Disney
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, ''The Wonderful World of Disney'', was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997 and Disney+ since 2020. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984–85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of the network in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most recent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navy Log
''Navy Log'' is an American drama anthology series created by Samuel Gallu that presented stories from the history of the United States Navy. This series ran on CBS from September 20, 1955, until September 25, 1956.On October 17, 1956, it moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. It changed networks because CBS "could not schedule it to the sponsor's wishes". The program aired for a total of three seasons and 104 episodes. The Department of Defense and departments of the Navy cooperated with production of the filmed 30-minute series. In conjunction with that cooperation, the Navy Information Office solicited suggestions for stories, accompanied by brief documentation, with a Navy Log Project Officer in charge. The opening scene, filmed aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, showed 2,000 sailors forming the words "Navy Log". The program's theme was "The Navy Log March" by Fred Steiner. Episodes opened with an announcer saying, "This is ''Navy Log''. The dramas you see each week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and screenwritten by Roger Ebert from a story by Ebert and Meyer. Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film '' Valley of the Dolls''—"dolls" being a slang term for depressant pills or "downers"—''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original. ''Beyond'' met a similar fate; it was initially panned by critics but became a box office success. The film later developed a cult following in subsequent decades, and earned some critical reappraisal for its satirical and metafictional elements. Plot Three young women—Kelly MacNamara, Casey Anderson, and Petronella "Pet" Danforth—perform in a rock band, the Kelly Affair, managed by Harris Allsworth, Kelly's boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
-30- (film)
''-30-'' (released as ''Deadline Midnight'' in the UK) is a 1959 film directed by Jack Webb and starring Webb and William Conrad as night managing editor and night city editor, respectively, of a fictional Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles newspaper, loosely based on the real-life (and now defunct) ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.'' Title "-30-" is used to signify "the end" or "over and out". It originates from several code tables for telegraph operators, but is traditional in the journalism field and is still used to indicate the end of transmitted news stories and news release, press releases and can frequently be found in formal corporate documents posted on websites and delivered electronically or via print. Plot The movie is set between approximately 3 p.m. and just after midnight on a day in November 1959. Managing Editor Sam Gatlin and his staff put together the early edition of the Examiner, a morning newspaper in Los Angeles. During a particularly active news night, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teenage Thunder
''Teenage Thunder'' is a 1957 American black and white teenage drama film directed by Paul Helmick. The film stars Chuck Courtney (actor), Chuck Courtney, Melinda Byron, Robert Fuller (actor), Robert Fuller, Tyler McVey and Paul Bryar. The opening theme song, ''Teenage Kisses'', is performed by country music singer David Houston (singer), David Houston. Plot summary 18 year old Johnnie Simpson lives with his father and Aunt Martha, after his mother died when he was three. His dad is strict with Johnnie and is constantly criticizing him. Johnnie has a girlfriend, Betty Palmer, who works as a waitress at the local drive-in. Maurie Weston, the town bully, owns a fancy hot rod and teases Johnny about him not being allowed to have a car. One night at the drive in, Maurie makes a move on Betty, but she rebuffs his advances, and ends up letting Johnnie drive her home in her brother's car. On the way there, Johnnie gets stopped by the police for speeding and driving recklessly. The polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone (born Mary Dorothy Maloney; January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in ''The Big Sleep'' (1946). After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in ''Written on the Wind'' (1956), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on '' Peyton Place'' (1964–1968). Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in ''Basic Instinct'' in 1992. Malone died on January 19, 2018. She had been one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Early life Malone was born Mary Dorothy Maloney on January 29, 1924in Chicago, one of five children born to Esther Emma "Eloise" Smith and her husband Robert Ignatius Malo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the highly successful ABC television series ''The Untouchables'' (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series ''Unsolved Mysteries'' (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film ''Written on the Wind'' (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona, most notably as Capt. Rex Kramer in ''Airplane!'' (1980). Early life He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Voyage
''The Last Voyage'' is a 1960 Metrocolor American disaster film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone. It stars Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, and Edmond O'Brien, and features Tammy Marihugh. The film centers on the sinking of an aged ocean liner in the Pacific Ocean following an explosion in the boiler room. There are some plot similarities to the disaster involving the Italian liner SS ''Andrea Doria'', which sank after a collision four years earlier. The ship used in the film was the French luxury liner SS ''Ile de France'', which played a major role during the rescue operations during the Andrea Doria disaster. Plot The SS ''Claridon'' is an aging transpacific ocean liner, scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Robert Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Dorothy Malone), and their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Janssen
David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer) (March 27, 1931February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series '' The Fugitive'' (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: ''Richard Diamond, Private Detective''; ''Harry O''; and '' O'Hara, U.S. Treasury''. In 1996 ''TV Guide'' ranked him number 36 on its ''50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time'' list. Early life David Janssen was born on March 27, 1931, in Naponee, a village in Franklin County in southern Nebraska, to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker, and Berniece Graf, a former Miss Nebraska and Ziegfeld girl. Following his parents' divorce in 1935, his mother moved with five-year-old David to Los Angeles, and married Eugene Janssen in 1940. Young David used his stepfather's name after he entered show business as a child. He attended Fairfax High School, where he excelled on the basketball court, setting a school s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Of Fire (1961 Film)
''Ring of Fire'' is a 1961 Metrocolor drama film directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring David Janssen, Joyce Taylor and Frank Gorshin. The film was shot in Vernonia, Oregon and Wynoochee River, Washington, featuring footage from two real forest fires. The title song was written and performed by Duane Eddy. Plot Deputy sheriff Steve Walsh and his partner encounter a trio of young people in Washington between Shelton and Aberdeen. After being taken hostage when the girl, Bobbie, produces a gun, the two deputies are forced by their captors into rural Mason County forests as the group flees an ever-growing search party. Bobbie later tries to seduce Walsh - twice her age - who resists. One of her companions, Roy, tries to push Walsh off a cliff, but plummets to his own death instead. When the search party comes to Walsh's rescue, Frank, the other captor, accuses Walsh of improper relations with Bobbie, who is a minor. Before the matter can be resolved, all realize that Frank's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She is the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in ''Carmen Jones'' (1954). Dandridge performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles. In 1959, Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ''Porgy and Bess''. She is the subject of the 1999 HBO biographical film, ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge''. She has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dandridge was married and divorced twice, first to dancer Harold Nicholas (the father of her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne) and then to hotel owner Jack Denison. Dandridge died in 1965 at the age of 42. Early life Dandridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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