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Me, Natalie
''Me, Natalie'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe about a homely young woman from Brooklyn who moves to Greenwich Village and finds romance with an aspiring painter. The screenplay by A. Martin Zweiback is based on an original story by Stanley Shapiro. Patty Duke, who starred in the title role, won a Golden Globe Award for her performance. The film also starred James Farentino, Salome Jens, Elsa Lanchester, Martin Balsam and Nancy Marchand. It marked Al Pacino's film debut. Plot From childhood, Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller, who has upper front teeth that are slightly bucked, and a nose too large for her face, has considered herself to be homely, and has never subscribed to her mother's determined belief that she will grow up to be pretty. By contrast, her best friend, Betty, is a popular and beautiful blonde cheerleader who has been going steady with the handsome Stanley since junior high school. Natalie's efforts to become a cheerleader herself, impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Coe
Frederick Hayden Hughs Coe (December 23, 1914 – April 29, 1979) was an American television producer and director most famous for '' The Goodyear Television Playhouse''/''The Philco Television Playhouse'' in 1948-1955 and ''Playhouse 90'' from 1957 to 1959. Among the live TV dramas he produced were '' Marty'' and ''The Trip to Bountiful'' for '' Goodyear''/''Philco'', ''Peter Pan'' for ''Producers' Showcase'', and '' Days of Wine and Roses'' for ''Playhouse 90''. Early life Frederick Hayden Hughs Coe was born on December 23, 1914, in Alligator, Mississippi. Coe grew up in Buckhorn, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Peabody Demonstration School in Nashville and Peabody College, before studying at the Yale Drama School. While he lived in Nashville he was active with the Nashville Community Playhouse and founded the Hillsboro Players. Career Coe went to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1940 after his graduate work at Yale. There he was director and manager of the Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in ''Me, Natalie'' (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in '' The Panic in Needle Park'' (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather'' (1972), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there. Early life Canby was born in Chicago, the son of Katharine Anne (née Vincent) and Lloyd Canby. He attended boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, with novelist William Styron, and the two became friends. He introduced Styron to the works of E.B. White and Ernest Hemingway; the pair hitchhiked to Richmond to buy ''For Whom the Bell Tolls''. He became an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve on October 13, 1942, and reported aboard the Landing Ship, Tank 679 on July 15, 1944. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on January 1, 1946, while on LST 679 sailing near Japan. After the war, he attended Dartmouth College, but did not graduate. Career He obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Wasserberger
Nathan Wasserberger (1928-2013) was a Jewish American painter, known for his portrait paintings, including in particular nudes and depictions of women in kimono. Originally from Chrzanów, Poland, he survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States in 1946 or 1947. Seven photographs of Wasserberger and 67 photographs of his paintings, are held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Born June 24, 1928, in Chrzanów, Poland, Wasserberger survived the Buchenwald concentration camp and settled in New York City in 1946 or 1947. He studied art at the Pratt Institute and under Ivan Olinsky and Byron Brown at the Art Students' League in New York, as well as at the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 1940s, and won awards for his paintings while still a student. Many of the paintings he produced during his first years in the United States were directly influenced by, or addressed themes of, his experience in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milt Kamen
Milton Kaiman (March 5, 1921 – February 24, 1977), better known as Milt Kamen, was an American stand-up comic and actor with numerous television credits. As a stand-up comic, Kamen was a favorite of Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx and Woody Allen. According to writer Kliph Nesteroff, Kamen worked as a stand-in for Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, inventing bits of business that Caesar claimed for his own. Life and career Born in Hurleyville, New York, his family moved to the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York when he was two years old. Kamen began his comedy career as a regular on '' Caesar's Hour'' in 1954. He frequently performed his comedy routines on shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Perry Como, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and Johnny Carson and made guest appearances on ''What's My Line?'', '' The Match Game'', ''Tattletales'', ''Pantomime Quiz'', ''The Gong Show'', ''Personality'', ''Password'', '' Missing Links'', ''You're Putting Me On'', '' To Tell the Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Cowles
Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright. Early life The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City. Career In 1966 Cowles played the title role in Edward Albee's short-lived adaptation of James Purdy's comic novel ''Malcolm'' on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. In 1968, he appeared with Al Pacino and John Cazale in Israel Horovitz's '' The Indian Wants the Bronx''. In 1983, Cowles joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company for their first repertory season, performing in ''Paradise Lost'', ''Rain'', ''Inheritors'', and ''The Hasty Heart''. Cowles' first television part was Joe Czernak in the series ''NYPD'' in 1969. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 1978 and as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 1981, both for his part as Billy Clyde Tuggle in ''All My Children'', a role that he created and wrote. Cow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Burns
Catherine Burns (September 25, 1945 – February 2, 2019) was an American actress of stage, film, radio and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''Last Summer'' (1969). Early years Born in New York City of Irish and Polish heritage, Burns was raised in Manhattan, and attended Hunter College High School, Hunter College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Burns's professional acting debut occurred in David Susskind's TV production of ''The Crucible'' (1967). She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 1968 in ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'', for which she received the Clarence Derwent Awards, Clarence Derwent Award. She also appeared in ''Operation Sidewinder'' (1970) on Broadway. In 1970 she won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play ''Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning''. Burns made her screen debut in 1969 in ''Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author, comedian, director and producer. He was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for ''Gosford Park'' (2001), in which he also appeared. Balaban is most known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest comedies ''Waiting for Guffman'' (1996), '' Best in Show'' (2000), ''A Mighty Wind'' (2003), and '' For Your Consideration'' (2006) and in the Wes Anderson films ''Moonrise Kingdom'' (2012), ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), ''Isle of Dogs'' (2018) and ''The French Dispatch'' (2021). Balaban's other film roles include the drama ''Midnight Cowboy'' (1969); the science fiction films ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977), ''Altered States'' (1980), ''2010'' (1984), the comedy ''Deconstructing Harry'' (1997), and the historical drama '' Capote'' (2005). Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films. He is also an author of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Hale
Ron Hale (born January 2, 1946) is an American actor best known for his role as Roger Coleridge on the ABC soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' for its entire run (1975–1989). He played the recurring role of Mike Corbin, the father of mobster Sonny Corinthos in the ABC soap opera ''General Hospital''. Hale, who had portrayed Corbin since 1995, announced his retirement in 2010. Filmography *''Search for Tomorrow'' (1951, TV Series) - Walt Driscoll (1969) *''A Lovely Way To Die'' (1968) *''Me, Natalie'' (1969) - Stanley Dexter *'' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'' (1973, TV Series) - Jim Abbott *''All the President's Men'' (1976) - Frank Sturgis *''Ryan's Hope'' (1975–1989, TV Series) - Roger Coleridge *'' Matlock'' (1989, TV Series) - Eldon Williams *''MacGyver'' (1990, TV Series) - Mike Travers *''Original Intent'' (1992) - Dr. Johnson *''Trial by Jury'' (1994) - Bailiff *'' The Dark Mist'' (1996) - Pentakis *''Port Charles'' (1997, TV Series) - Mike Corbin *''The Brothers Flub'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Winters
Deborah Brace Winters (born November 27, 1953) is an American film and television actress and realtor who has appeared in films such as ''Kotch'', '' The People Next Door'', '' Class of '44'' and the television miniseries ''The Winds of War''. Early life Deborah Winters was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ralph Winters, head of television casting for Universal Studios for 28 years, and actress Penny Edwards. She began her film and television career at age five after moving to New York, where she attended the Professional Children's School. She later commenced professional training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York City. She returned to Los Angeles in 1968, where she studied acting under Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Winters continued working, appearing in commercials for Kinney Shoes, Gulf Oil, Lincoln-Mercury, Quaker Oats, and others. In 1966, she received her first major screen role in the Fred Coe comedy-drama, ''Me, Natalie''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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