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Ragtime (film)
''Ragtime'' is a 1981 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel ''Ragtime (novel), Ragtime'' by E. L. Doctorow. It is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, New York, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film stars James Cagney, Mary Steenburgen, Howard Rollins, Brad Dourif, James Olson (actor), James Olson and Elizabeth McGovern. ''Ragtime'' featured Cagney's and Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien's final film appearances, as well as early roles for Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Samuel L. Jackson, Ethan Phillips, and John Ratzenberger. Plot At the turn of the 20th century, architect Stanford White unveils a nude statue atop Madison Square Garden, modeled after former chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit. After learning of this, Nesbit's husband, millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; ; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech Americans, Czech-American film film director, director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Throughout Forman's career he won two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Bear, a César Award, and the Czech Lion.List of Milos Forman nominations . Awardsdatabase.oscars.org (29 January 2010). Retrieved on 23 June 2011.He is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film ''The Firemen's Ball'' as a biting satire on Eastern Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's ''King (TV miniseries), King'', George Haley in the 1979 miniseries ''Roots: The Next Generations'', Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film ''Ragtime (film), Ragtime'', Captain Davenport in the 1984 film ''A Soldier's Story'', and as Virgil Tibbs on the NBC/CBS television crime drama ''In the Heat of the Night (TV series), In the Heat of the Night'' (1988–1994). Over the span of his acting career, Rollins was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Golden Globe, and an Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Emmy. Early life and education Born to Ruth and Howard Ellsworth Rollins Sr. on October 17, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, Rollins was the youngest of four children. His mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Harry Kendall Thaw
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for having murdered the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York City's Madison Square Garden (1890), Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1906. Thaw had harbored an obsessive hatred of White, believing he had blocked Thaw's access to the social elite of New York. White also had a previous relationship with Thaw's wife, the model and chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit, when she was 16 or 17. This affair began with White allegedly date rape, plying Nesbit with alcohol (and possibly with drugs) and then raping her while she was unconscious. In Thaw's mind, this relationship had "ruined" her. Thaw's trial for murder was heavily publicized and called the "trial of the century". After one hung jury, a second jury found him not guilty by reason of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Evelyn Nesbit
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American model (person), artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906. As a model, Nesbit was frequently photographed for mass circulation newspapers, magazine advertisements, souvenir items and calendars. When in her early teens, she had begun working as an artist's model in Philadelphia. Nesbit continued after her family moved to New York, posing for artists including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a "Gibson Girl". She began modeling when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art genre) were beginning to expand. Nesbit entered Broadway theatre, initially as a chor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth avenues from 31st to 33rd streets above Pennsylvania Station (New York City), Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth venue to bear the name "Madison Square Garden"; the first two, opened in Madison Square Garden (1879), 1879 and Madison Square Garden (1890), 1890, were located on Madison Square and Madison Square Park, Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the Madison Square Garden (1925), third Madison Square Garden (1925) farther uptown at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street. The Garden hosts professional ice hockey, professional basketball, boxing, mixed martial arts, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling, and other forms of sports and entertainment. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stanford White
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many houses for the wealthy, in addition to numerous civic, institutional and religious buildings. His temporary Washington Square Arch was so popular that he was commissioned to design a permanent one. White's design principles embodied the " American Renaissance". In 1906, White was murdered during a musical performance at the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden. His killer, Harry Kendall Thaw, was a wealthy but mentally unstable heir of a coal and railroad fortune who had become obsessed by White's alleged drugging and rape of, and subsequent relationship with, the woman who was to become Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit, which had started when she was aged 16. At the time of White's killing, Nesbit was a famous fashion model. With the public n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Ratzenberger
John Dezso Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947)About John from Ratzenberger's official website is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Cliff Clavin on the comedy series '''', for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. Ratzenberger reprised the role in the short-lived spin-off '' The Tortellis'', an episode of '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ethan Phillips
John Ethan Phillips (born February 8, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as Neelix on '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and PR man Pete Downey on '' Benson''. Personal life Phillips was raised on Long Island, New York. His father was the owner of Frankie & Johnnie's, a steakhouse on 45th and Eighth Avenue in New York City. He earned a Bachelor's degree in English literature from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University. He plays the tenor saxophone. Career Theatre Phillips began his show business career in New York City, performing off-Broadway at theaters including Direct Theater, winning the Best of the Actors’ Festival there in 1977; at the Wonderhorse Theater, in the premiere of Christopher Durang's ''The Nature and Purpose of the Universe''; and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of '' Eccentricities of a Nightingale''. Tennessee Williams, who helped shape the latter production, wrote a new monologue for Phillips, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Samuel L
Samuel L. may refer to: * Samuel L. Jackson (born 1948), American actor * Samuel L. Clemens aka Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American author * Samuel L. Devine (1915 – 1997), American politician * Samuel L. Gravely Jr. (1922 – 2004) African-American naval officer * Samuel L. Greitzer (1905 – 1988), American mathematician * Samuel L. Lewis (1896 – 1971) American mystic and horticulturalist * Samuel L. Mitchill (1764–1831) American physician, naturalist, and politician * Samuel L. Popkin (born 1942), American political scientist * Samuel L. Southard (1787 – 1842), American statesman {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fran Drescher
Francine Joy Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress and trade unionist. She is currently serving as the national president of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). She played Fran Fine in the television sitcom ''The Nanny'' (1993–1999), which she created and produced with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson. Drescher made her screen debut with a small role in the 1977 film ''Saturday Night Fever'' and later appeared in '' American Hot Wax'' (1978) and Wes Craven's horror film '' Stranger in Our House'' (1978). In the 1980s, she worked as a comedic actress in the films ''Gorp'' (1980), '' The Hollywood Knights'' (1980), '' Doctor Detroit'' (1983), '' This Is Spinal Tap'' (1984), and ''UHF'' (1989), and made guest appearances on several television series. In 1993, she achieved wider fame as Fran Fine in her own sitcom vehicle ''The Nanny'', for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards. He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama ''Ragtime'' (1981) followed by James L. Brooks's ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983), and Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986). He then received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Woody Allen's '' The Purple Rose of Cairo'' (1985), Jonathan Demme's '' Something Wild'' (1986), and Noah Baumbach's ''The Squid and the Whale'' (2005). He starred in a variety of genre films such as ''Gettysburg (1993 film), Gettysburg'' (1993), ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'' (1994), ''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994), ''101 Dalmatians (1996 film), 101 Dalmatians'' (1996), and ''Pleasantville (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pat O'Brien (actor)
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Ireland, Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially well-remembered for his roles in ''Knute Rockne, All American'' (1940), ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), and ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood star and close friend James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television. Early life O'Brien was born in 1899 to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All four of his grandparents had come from Ireland. The O'Briens were originally from County Cork. His grandfather, Patrick O'Brien, for whom he was named, was an archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
