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Richard J. Collins
Richard J. Collins (July 20, 1914 – February 14, 2013) was an American producer, director and screenwriter prominent in Hollywood during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He worked on several notable television programs including '' Bonanza'', ''General Electric Theater'', '' Matlock'' and ''Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre''. He was married to actress Dorothy Comingore from 1939 until 1945. One of the characters in the film ''Guilty by Suspicion'' was based on his character although he and Dorothy Comingore were long divorced before the HUAC hearings. Background Richard J. Collins was born on July 20, 1914, in New York City. He attended various schools in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, including the Browning School, Lycee Janson de Sailly, and Beverly Hills High School. Collins also attended Stanford University for a term and a half before moving back to New York with his family. In 1936, Collins took classes for six months with the New Theatre League, where he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonanza
''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 13, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running western, the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's '' Gunsmoke''), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas. The title "Bonanza" is a term used by miners in regard to a large vein or deposit of silver ore, from Spanish ''bonanza'' (prosperity) and commonly refers to the 1859 revelation of the Comst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of Russia
''Song of Russia'' is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by László Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited screenwriters were Paul Jarrico and Richard J. Collins. The film stars Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Robert Benchley. Plot American conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley), go to the Soviet Union shortly before the country is invaded by Germany. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova (Susan Peters) while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Their bliss is destroyed by the German invasion. Cast Production MGM Pictures rapidly greenlit a war film set in the Soviet Union in 1942 after the United States Office of War Information encouraged films positively portraying the Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Births
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thousands Cheer
''Thousands Cheer'' is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families. Plot The film is essentially a two-part program. The first half consists of a romantic comedy storyline involving an aerialist, played by Gene Kelly, who is drafted into the US Army but really wants to join the Air Force. During training, he falls in love with Kathryn (played by Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of his commanding officer, who has similarly put her singing career on hold in order to serve by providing entertainment for the troops. Unusually for this type of a film (and for this era of Hollywood), the character Kathryn has only recently met her father for the first time since she was a baby, her parents having divorced. A related subplot has Kathryn conniving to get her parents (played by John Boles and Mary Astor) to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Scarface
''Lady Scarface'' is a 1941 American crime drama film that was directed by Frank Woodruff and starred Dennis O'Keefe, Judith Anderson, and Frances Neal. Plot The scar-faced gangster Slade is on the loose. Lieutenant Bill Mason travels to a hotel in New York to try and track her down. In New York Lt. Mason works together with Lt. Onslow and the crime reporter Ann Rogers to catch Slade, under the assumption that she is a man. An innocent couple at the hotel inadvertently gets involved. Cast * Dennis O'Keefe as Lt. Bill Mason * Judith Anderson as Slade * Frances E. Neal as Ann Rogers * Mildred Coles as Mary Jordan Powell * Eric Blore as Mr. Hartford * Marc Lawrence as Lefty Landers * Damian O'Flynn as Lt. Onslow * Andrew Tombes as Art Seidel (hotel detective) * Marion Martin as Ruby, aka Mary Jordan * Arthur Shields as Matt Willis * Rand Brooks Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor. Early life Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Crowded Night
''One Crowded Night'' is a 1940 drama film directed by Irving Reis. Cast * Billie Seward as Gladys * William Haade as Joe Miller * Charles Lang as Fred Matson (Navy deserter prisoner) * Adele Pearce as Ruth Matson * J.M. Kerrigan as Brother 'Doc' Joseph (patent medicine peddler) * Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Andrews * Anne Revere as Mae Andrews * Gale Storm as Annie Mathews * Dick Hogan as Vince Sanders * George Watts as Pa Mathews * Emma Dunn as Ma Mathews * Don Costello as Lefty (gunman chasing Jim Andrews) * Gaylord Pendleton as Mat Denlen (Gunman chasing Jim Andrews) * Casey Johnson as Bobby Andrews * Harry Shannon as Detective Lt. McDermott References External links ''One Crowded Night''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... 1940 films American drama f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rulers Of The Sea
''Rulers of the Sea'' is a 1939 American historical film, historical drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood and Will Fyffe. The film's story is based on the voyage of the , the first steamship to cross the North Atlantic, from Britain to the United States. The film was made by Paramount Pictures, but featured Lockwood and Fyffe who were two of the leading stars of the British Gainsborough Pictures studios. The supporting cast features Alan Ladd. Cast * Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as David 'Davie' Gillespie * Margaret Lockwood as Mary Shaw * Will Fyffe as John Shaw * George Bancroft (actor), George Bancroft as Captain Oliver * Montagu Love as Malcolm Grant * Vaughan Glaser as Junius Smith * David Torrence (actor), David Torrence as Donald Fenton * Lester Matthews as Lt. Roberts * Alec Craig as Foreman MacNeil * Barlowe Borland as Magistrate * Wilson Benge as Campbell * Harry Allen (actor), Harry Allen as Murdock * Barry Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan (né Ginsberg, 2 November 1937 – 23 July 2020) was a South African-born British writer and historian. He was contributor to ''The Guardian'' (from 1989) and lecturer on film and other subjects as well as the author (or co-author) of several books including biographies. Career He was born Ronald Ginsberg in Johannesburg and educated there, in England, and in the United States. In France, he taught literature, theater, and film at the Sorbonne, the British Institute in Paris, and the University of Lille. He held a Chair at the Florida International University in Miami where he taught Film History and Theory. He lectured on film history at FAMU in Prague. He was a writer for ''The Guardian'' and ''Radio Times'', journalist, biographer, film historian, International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera (the head of the Jury), Film Festival Juror, founding president of FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) in May 2010 in Cannes, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara (U
Sara may refer to: Arts, media and entertainment Film and television * ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui * ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda * ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhala thriller directed by Nishantha Pradeep * ''Sara'' (2015 film), 2015 Hong Kong psychological thriller * ''Sara'' (1976 TV series), 1976 American western series * ''Sara'' (1985 TV series), 1985 American situation comedy * ''Sara'' (Belgian TV series), 2007–08 Flemish telenovella on Belgian television * "Sara" (''Arrow'' episode), an episode of Arrow Music * Sara (band), a Finnish band * "Sara" (Bob Dylan song), a song by Bob Dylan for the 1976 album ''Desire'' * "Sara" (Fleetwood Mac song), a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 LP ''Tusk'' * "Sara" (Starship song), a song by Starship from the 1985 album ''Knee Deep in the Hoopla'' *"Sara", a song by Bill Champlin from the 1981 LP '' Runaway'' * "Sarah" (other)#Music, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel '' The Body Snatchers''.Warren 1982 The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science fiction film ''The Atomic Man'' (and in some markets with ''Indestructible Man''). The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Citizens Of America
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA) was a social-democratic and democratic socialist American political organization formed in December 1946 that advocated progressive policies, which worked with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and allegedly the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), as a precursor to the 1948 incarnation of the Progressive Party. It also led to formation of a counter group called Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), formed in January 1947 with progressive domestic views but anti-communist and interventionist foreign policy views, that split liberals and nearly cost Harry S. Truman the 1948 US Presidential Election. The organization was dissolved in 1948. History In 1944, Elinor S. Gimbel founded a Popular Front group called the Non-Partisan Committee to support Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1940 presidential campaign. That committee folded into the National Citizens Political Action Committee (NC-PAC), an arm of the Congress of Industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC) was a nonprofit organization to provide humanitarian aid to refugees of the Spanish Civil War. History In 1941, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee was formed by Lincoln Battalion veterans of the Spanish Civil War to provide aid to Spanish Loyalists refugees from Francoist Spain. JAFRC superseded previous groups, including the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and American Medical Bureau (the latter of which Barsky had founded in 1936). Specifically, JAFRC was "dedicated to the rescue and relief of thousands of anti-fascist fighters trapped in Vichy, France, and North Africa" so that they might "return to the active fight against the Axis." JAFRC established a fundraising organization called "Spanish Refugee Appeal" of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee." Dorothy Parker took charge of the committee's fundraising and the anti-fascists soon attracted the support of Leonard Bernstein, Albert Einstein, Lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
