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Robert Stevens (director)
Robert Stevens (December 2, 1920 – August 7, 1989) was an American director and producer of television shows and movies during a career of nearly 4 decades. He was most active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. His most famous and notable works include his works as the producer/director of ''Suspense'', as a frequent director of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and '' The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' and as the director of the movie '' Change of Mind''. He also directed the pilot of ''The Twilight Zone''. Work became slow for Stevens after the 1970s. His last work was as the director of an episode of ''Amazing Stories'' in 1987. In 1989, Stevens was robbed and beaten in his rented Westport, Connecticut home where he had retired to in 1987. He died shortly thereafter of cardiac arrest Cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. It is a medical emergency that, without immediate medical intervention, will result in sudden cardiac death within minutes. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, education, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The United States Steel Hour
''The United States Steel Hour'' is an anthology series which brought hour long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel). ''Theatre Guild on the Air'' The series originated on radio in the 1940s as ''Theatre Guild on the Air''. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions in ''Theatre Guild Dramas'', a CBS series which ran from December 6, 1943, to February 29, 1944. Actress-playwright Armina Marshall (1895–1991), a co-administrator of the Theatre Guild, headed the Guild's newly created Radio Department, and in 1945, ''Theatre Guild on the Air'' embarked on its ambitious plan to bring Broadway theater to radio with leading actors in major productions. It premiered September 9, 1945, on ABC with Burgess Meredith, Henry Daniell and Cecil Humphreys in '' Wings Over Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
''Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre'' is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy. Overview The program included such events as an adaptation of ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'', starring Jason Robards (from the 1962 novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn); ''The Seven Little Foys'', starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmond Brothers; ''Think Pretty'', a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase; and Groucho Marx in "Time for Elizabeth", a televised adaptation of a play that Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948. Generally, each episode ran for an hour, although for some 'special presentations', NBC expanded the broadcast time to 90 minutes. Hope was paid US$25,000 ($ in dollars ) per week for those episodes he merely introduced, and US$500,000 ($ in dollars ) for those in which he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long, Hot Summer (TV Series)
''The Long Hot Summer'' is an American drama series from 20th Century Fox Television that was broadcast on ABC-TV for one season from 1965–1966. It was aired in the UK on ITV. Synopsis The series was set in the Deep South community of Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi. The community was dominated and owned by the town's wealthy, powerful (and deceitful) bank owner "Boss" Will Varner ( Edmond O'Brien). A widower with two grown children who also owned other businesses besides the town's bank, the unscrupulous Varner ran the town and its citizens with an iron fist and nobody dared to question him. He and his family lived in the largest mansion in Frenchman's Bend. However, problems arose in Varner's orderly world when Ben Quick ( Roy Thinnes), a young man whose father Varner destroyed some years prior, returns to town after thirteen years away to reclaim his family's farm and to challenge Varner's absolute authority over the town and its people. Ben's aim was to settle the score ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Defenders (1961 TV Series)
''The Defenders'' is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961 to 1965. It was created by television writer Reginald Rose, and stars E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys. Original music for the series was scored by Frank Lewin and Leonard Rosenman. This series is not related to the 2010s CBS series of the same name. Plot Lawrence Preston (Marshall) and Kenneth Preston (Reed) are father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, demonstrators of the Civil Rights Movement, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing. Cast * E. G. Marshall as Lawrence Preston * Robert Reed as Kenneth Preston * Polly Rowles as Helen Donaldson, the Prestons' secretary (1961–1962) *Joan Hackett as Joan Miller, Kenneth's girlfriend (1961–1962) Several actors appeared numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The People (1965 TV Series)
''For the People'' is an American legal drama that aired from January 31 until May 9, 1965. The series starred a pre-''Star Trek'' William Shatner as a New York City prosecutor. It was shot on location in New York. Premise William Shatner played assistant district attorney David Koster in New York City. Cast *William Shatner as David Koster, an assistant district attorney *Howard Da Silva as Anthony Celese, a district attorney and Koster's boss *Lonny Chapman as Frank Malloy, a police detective * Jessica Walter as Phyllis Koster, David's wife Episodes Cancellation The series was canceled after its first season. The cancellation left Shatner free to accept the role of Captain James T. Kirk on ''Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...''. References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nurses (CBS TV Series)
''The Nurses'' is a serialized primetime medical drama that was broadcast in the United States on CBS from September 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965. For the third and final season, the title was expanded to ''The Doctors and the Nurses'' and it ran until 1965, when it was transformed into a half-hour daytime soap opera. The soap opera, also called ''The Nurses'', ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967. Synopsis The series is set in Alden General Hospital (patterned after Roosevelt Hospital) in New York, and the primetime program starred Zina Bethune as Gail Lucas, the young nurse, and Shirl Conway as Liz Thorpe, her older nurse mentor. Unlike most television dramas of the era, save for ABC's police drama '' Naked City'' (1958–1963) and the sitcom ''The Patty Duke Show'' (1963–1966), the series was filmed in New York and not Hollywood. The show was mainly filmed at the Filmways and Pathe Studios in Manhattan. The program was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards. Cast * Zina Bethune as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Adventure (U
The Great Adventure can refer to: Albums * ''The Great Adventure'' (Steven Curtis Chapman album), 1992 * ''The Great Adventure'' (The Neal Morse Band album), 2019 Film and theatre *'' The Great Adventure (play)'', "A Play of Fancy in Four Acts", 1913 play by the English author Arnold Bennett * ''The Great Adventure'' (1915 film), British silent comedy based on Arnold Bennett's work, directed by Laurence Trimble#Select filmography * ''The Great Adventure'' (1918 film), American silent comedy-drama * ''The Great Adventure'' (1921 film), American silent comedy based on Arnold Bennett's work * ''The Great Adventure'' (1951 film), British-South African action adventure a/k/a ''The Adventurers'', ''Fortune in Diamonds'' or ''South African Story'' * ''The Great Adventure'' (1952 film), Czechoslovak biographical adventure; original title ''Velké dobrodruzství'', with Vladimír Brabec#Selected filmography * ''The Great Adventure'' (1953 film), Swedish drama * ''The Great Adventure'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Point (1963 TV Series)
''Breaking Point'' is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964. The series, which was a spin-off of ''Ben Casey'', stars Paul Richards and Eduard Franz. The series was created by Meta Rosenberg. Synopsis Richards stars as Dr. McKinley Thompson, the chief resident in psychiatry at York Hospital, a fictitious hospital in Los Angeles. Eduard Franz co-starred as Dr. Edward Raymer, the hospital's psychiatric clinical director. McKinley was called Dr. Mac by everyone on the staff, and the stories focused on the people who came to the psychiatric clinic for their help.Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 117 Cast Main Paul Richards as Dr. McKinley Thompson Eduard Franz as Dr. William Raymer Guest stars * Bettye Ackerman * Martin Balsam * Shelley Berman * James Callahan * Michael Callan * John Cassavetes * Dabney Coleman * Rosemary DeCamp * James Daly * Bradford Dillman * Dianne Fost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Cool Of The Day
''In the Cool of the Day'' is a 1963 British-American romantic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Metrocolor and Panavision. The film is directed by Robert Stevens and starring Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill, and Constance Cummings; with Nigel Davenport, and John Le Mesurier. Plot Christine Bonner (Fonda) is a beautiful young American woman with chronic health problems. She has been separated from her adoring but overly protective husband Sam (Hill), but agrees to return to him. She meets an English friend of Sam's, Murray Logan (Finch), who shares her great interest in Greece. Logan also is unhappily married because his wife, Sybil (Lansbury), blames him for an automobile accident that scarred her and killed their son. Christine and Murray meet again in England and their attraction grows. The two couples plan to vacation together in Greece, but Sam must stay home because of a family illness. Murray and Christine fall in love as they visit Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Thank A Fool
''I Thank a Fool'' is a 1962 British Metrocolor crime film made by Eaton (De Grunwald Productions) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in CinemaScope. It was directed by Robert Stevens and produced by Anatole de Grunwald from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg based on the 1958 novel of the same title by Audrey Erskine Lindop. The music score was by Ron Goodwin and the cinematography by Harry Waxman. The film stars Susan Hayward and Peter Finch with Diane Cilento and Cyril Cusack. Also in the cast are Kieron Moore, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler, Miriam Karlin, Laurence Naismith, J. G. Devlin, Clive Morton, Richard Leech and Brenda De Banzie. Plot Dr. Christine Allison ( Susan Hayward) is convicted of manslaughter for the mercy killing of her terminally ill, married lover. After serving two years in prison, she is unable to find work. Help comes from a surprising source—she is approached by Stephen Dane ( Peter Finch), the man who prosecuted her, to look after his disturbed wife L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Startime (1959 TV Series)
''Startime'' is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959–1960 television season. Summary The show was known as either Ford Startime—TV's Finest Hour or Lincoln–Mercury Startime, depending on which division of the Ford Motor Company was presenting commercials within that show. The contents varied from week to week — dramas, musical comedies, and variety shows were all presented.Tim Brooks and Earl March, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946–Present'' (Random House, 2007) p. 976 The show was always broadcast on Tuesday nights. Initially, from the premiere through the end of 1959, the show was broadcast 9:30–10:30 PM (EST) - but, starting on January 5, 1960, the show was broadcast 8:30–9:30 PM (EST). Furthermore, some of the shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
