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Playmates (game Company)
Playmates or Playmate may refer to: * ''Playboy'' Playmate, a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' Film and television * ''Playmates'' (1915 film), directed by Mauritz Stiller * ''Playmates'' (1918 film), starring Oliver Hardy * ''Playmates'' (Around the Town), a 1922 British short film * ''Playmates'' (1921 film), starring Diana Serra Cary * ''Playmates'' (1941 film), starring Kay Kyser * ''Playmates'' (1972 film), written by Richard Baer Music * "Playmates" (song), ostensibly written by Saxie Dowell in 1940 * The Playmates, a 50's music group * ''Playmates'' (album), an album by Small Faces in 1977 Novels * ''Playmates'', a 1987 novel by Andrew Neiderman * ''Playmates'' (novel), published in 1989 by Robert B. Parker Organizations * Playmates Toys, a toy manufacturer, subsidiary of Playmates Holdings Ltd * Playmates Interactive, a video game publisher and subsidiary of Playmates Toys See also * List of Playboy Playmates of the Month * Playb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playboy Playmate
A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and turn-offs. At the end of the year, one of the 12 Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year (PMOTY). Every Playmate of the Month is awarded a prize of US$25,000 and each Playmate of the Year receives an additional prize of US$100,000 plus a car (specifically, a short-term lease of a car) and other discretionary gifts. In addition, Anniversary Playmates are usually chosen to celebrate a milestone year of the magazine. The use of the word "Playmate" in a sexual sense did not originate with Playboy, and was seen at least as early as 1950 in Vue magazine (vol 1, #1). ''Playboy'' encourages potential Playmates to send photos with "girl next door" appeal for consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 18 November 1928) was a Swedish film director of Finnish Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller had been a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing and directing many short films from 1912. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer invited him to Hollywood as a director, he arrived with his new discovery Greta Gustafsson, whose screen name Greta Garbo is believed to have been his suggestion. After frequent disagreements with studio executives at MGM and Paramount Pictures, Stiller returned to Sweden, where he died soon afterwards. Life Moshe Stiller was born in Helsinki. His family was of Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, having lived in Russia and Poland before settling in Finland, these countries being part of the Russian Empire. After his father's death when he was four, his mother committed suicide. He was raised by family friends. From an early age, Stiller was interes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (1918 Film)
''Playmates'' is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Plot summary Cast * Billy West as Kid * Oliver Hardy as Kid (as Babe Hardy) * Bud Ross * Fay Holderness * Ethelyn Gibson * Ethel Marie Burton * Myrtle Lind Margaret Victoria Anderson (September 2, 1898 – October 12, 1993) known professionally as Myrtle Lind was an American film actress. She was one of Mack Sennett's Sennett's Bathing Beauties, Bathing Beauties and appeared in several comedy ... * Charley Chase as Dope fiend (as Charles Parrott) See also * Oliver Hardy filmography References External links * * 1918 films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1918 comedy films 1918 short films Silent American comedy films American comedy short films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (Around The Town)
''Playmates'' within cinema of the United Kingdom, is a 1922 silent comic film clip of the (then) young comedian Will Hay dressed as a school boy, and playing with a girl and some mechanical children's toys, from his theatrical revue 'Listening In'. Synopsis Introducing some clever mechanical toys, M'lita Dolores dressed as a young girl, stands on steps in front of a door - enter Will Hay dressed as a schoolboy. They show each other a number of toy animals that walk and jump. They quarrel and he boylike wants the best, takes away a toy which she snatches back. They squabble but make up, and leave with an arm around each other. Allegedly very scratchy but watchable, the clip is stored with the National Film and Television Archive. Cast *Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Serra Cary
Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery; October 29, 1918 – February 24, 2020), known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian. She was the last living person with a substantial career in silent films. Baby Peggy was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent film era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie. Between 1921 and 1924, she made over 150 short films for the ''Century Film Corporation''. In 1922, she received over 1.2 million fan letters and by 1924, she had been dubbed ''The Million Dollar Baby'' for her $1.5 million annual salary ($ million in ). Despite her childhood fame and wealth, her parents mismanaged her finances and by the time she came of age she found herself poor and working as an extra by the 1930s. Having an interest in both writing and history since her youth, Montgomery found a second career as an author and silent film historian in her later years under the name D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (1941 Film)
''Playmates'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by David Butler and written by James V. Kern. The film stars Kay Kyser, John Barrymore (in his final film), Lupe Vélez, Ginny Simms, May Robson and Patsy Kelly. It was released on December 26, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot Lulu Monahan, press agent for John Barrymore, tries to attract a sponsor for Barrymore's radio program. Lulu and bandleader Kay Kyser's agent concoct a story that a great actor will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare. Cast * Kay Kyser as Kay Kyser * John Barrymore as John Barrymore * Lupe Vélez as Carmen Del Toro * Ginny Simms as Ginny Simms * May Robson as Grandma Kyser * Patsy Kelly as Lulu Monahan * Peter Lind Hayes as Peter Lindsay * Ish Kabibble as Ish Kabibble * Sully Mason as Sully Mason * Harry Babbitt as Harry Babbitt * Leon Belasco as Prince Maharoohu * George Cleveland as Mr. Pennypacker (uncredited) * Alice Fleming Alice Fleming, (August 9, 1882 – December 6, 1952) was a character a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (1972 Film)
''Playmates'' is a 1972 American made-for-television romantic comedy film starring Alan Alda, Connie Stevens, Barbara Feldon, Doug McClure and directed by Theodore J. Flicker. It originally aired as the ''ABC Movie of the Week'' on October 3, 1972. Stevens called it "''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' that doesn't cop out at the key moment." Plot Two men start dating each other's ex-wives. Cast *Alan Alda as Marshall Barnett *Connie Stevens as Patti Holvey *Barbara Feldon as Lois Barnett *Doug McClure Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 o ... as Kermit Holvey Reception The ''Los Angeles Times'' said it "packs a wallop". This was a large ratings success, ranking among the 20 most viewed films on TV for a time. References External links *{{IMDb title, 0069099 1972 televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (song)
"Playmates" is a popular song ostensibly written by Saxie Dowell. The main theme was note-for-note plagiarized from the 1904 intermezzo "Iola" by Charles L. Johnson, for which Johnson sued, settling out of court for an undisclosed sum. Recordings in 1940 were made by Kay Kyser and his orchestra (vocals: Sully Mason & His Playmates), by Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions In Music (vocals: Mary Ann Mercer & Tommy Taylor), and by Hal Kemp and the Smoothies. The Johnny McGee orchestra also recorded it in February 1940 with the vocal done by Harry Garret (actually Harry Garey) and Carol Anderson. Harry's name was misspelled on the Varsity label. The Kay Kyser recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 35375. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on July 20, 1940 (the first week that Billboard listed a chart) and lasted one week on the chart, peaking at number four. The song was revived in a 1953 recording by Jimmy Boyd, and then again in a 1955 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Playmates
The Playmates were an American late 1950s vocal group led by the pianist Chic Hetti (born Carl Cicchetti, 26 February 1930), drummer Donny Conn (born Donald Claps, 29 March 1930 – September 2, 2015), and Morey Carr (31 July 1932 – 1987), all from Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Career The Playmates—Donald Claps (a.k.a. Donny Conn), drummer and lyricist; Carl Cicchetti (a.k.a. Chic Hetti), pianist music composer; and Morey Cohen (a.k.a. Morey Carr), lead vocalist—were an instrumental and vocal trio, from Waterbury, Connecticut, and, in the early 1950s, at the University of Connecticut. After graduation in 1952, they began touring small lounges and night clubs in the United States and Canada, originally as "the Nitwits", later as the Playmates. Signed to Roulette Records in 1958 as the label's first vocal group, and anticipating a Calypso craze, the group recorded an album called ''Playmates Visit the West Indies''. They then released two notable Top 40 singles&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (album)
''Playmates'' is the fourth studio album, and the first during their reunion, by English rock band the Small Faces. The album was created by Steve Marriott, Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones and Rick Wills when they reformed in the late seventies and recorded it along with the album ''78 in the Shade''. Ronnie Lane left before the album was recorded. Reunion: 1975–1978 Following the break-up of Faces in 1975, the original Small Faces line-up reformed briefly to film videos miming to the reissued "Itchycoo Park", which hit the charts again. The group tried recording together again but Lane left after the first rehearsal due to an argument. Unbeknownst to the others, he was just beginning to show the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and his behaviour was misinterpreted by Marriott and the others as a drunken tantrum. Lane subsequently began recording '' Rough Mix'' with the Who's Pete Townshend shortly after the argument. Nevertheless, McLagan, Jones and Marriott decided to stay togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Neiderman
Andrew Neiderman (born October 26, 1940) is a best-selling American novelist. In 1987, he became the ghost writer for V. C. Andrews following her death in 1986. He formerly taught English at Fallsburg Jr./Sr. High School, in upstate New York. Neiderman is arguably best known as the author of ''The Devil's Advocate'', later adapted into a film starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron, and directed by Taylor Hackford. Neiderman also adapted the novel ''Rain'' into a film, based on a series of novels released under Andrews's name. Neiderman wrote the stage adaptation of ''Flowers in the Attic'' based on the novel by V.C. Andrews, published online in 2014. The world premiere was produced in New Orleans, Louisiana, in August 2015 by See 'Em On Stage: A Production Company and was directed by Christopher Bentivegna. Andrew Neiderman has written the libretto for a musical stage adaptation of ''The Devil's Advocate''. He also co-authored the screenplay for ''Duplicates'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmates (novel)
''Playmates'' is the 16th book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series and first published in 1989. Spenser investigates a point shaving scheme involving the Taft University basketball team. References Spenser (novel series) Taft College {{1980s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
