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Stanley Prager
Stanley Prager (January 8, 1917 – January 18, 1972) was an American actor and a television and theatre director. Life and career Born in New York City, Prager began his career as the stage manager for the Broadway production ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' in 1942. He spent the remainder of the decade acting in mostly B-movies, with occasional roles in better films such as ''A Bell for Adano'', ''Gun Crazy'', ''In the Meantime, Darling'', and ''A Foreign Affair''. After his name appeared on the Hollywood blacklist, Prager returned to Broadway as a performer in ''Two on the Aisle'', '' Two's Company'', ''Room Service'', and ''The Pajama Game''. He switched gears and began directing with Neil Simon's ''Come Blow Your Horn'' in 1961. Additional theatre directing credits include ''Bravo Giovanni'', ''Minnie's Boys'', '' Don't Drink the Water'', and ''70, Girls, 70''. Prager's television directing credits include ''The Love Song of Barney Kempinski'' for ''ABC Stage 67'', ''Car 54, Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind Green Lights
''Behind Green Lights'' is a 1946 American crime film directed by Otto Brower. Plot Police Lieutenant Sam Carson spots Walter Bard's bullet-ridden corpse in a car brazenly left in front of the police station. Carson questions Janet Bradley after finding her name in the dead man's appointment book. She admits that Bard had been blackmailing her friend for $20,000, and that she went to see him, though she had been able to raise only half the money. When he refused to settle for that, she claims she took what she came for at gunpoint. Max Calvert, a newspaper owner, pressures Carson to arrest Bradley to hurt her father's election campaign for mayor. Carson declines. When Dr. Yager, the corrupt medical examiner, informs Calvert that Bard actually died from poison, Calvert orders him to get the body out of the police station and substitute another corpse for it before anyone else finds out. Meanwhile, Carson interviews Bard's estranged wife, Nora, who is accompanied by her lawyer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Drink The Water (play)
''Don't Drink the Water'' is a play written by Woody Allen that premiered on Broadway in 1966. The farce takes place inside an American Embassy behind the Iron Curtain. Although Allen contributed material for the 1960 Broadway musical revue ''From A to Z'', this was his first professionally produced play. The play was described as being "near the hit line", "one big overfed American folk joke" and "a very funny situation comedy" by critic Otis L. Guernsey. Production ''Don't Drink the Water'' premiered on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on November 17, 1966, and closed on April 20, 1968, after 598 performances at three different Broadway theaters. The cast included Lou Jacobi, Kay Medford and Anita Gillette as the Hollander family. Tony Roberts (Axel Magee) and Donna Mills (Sultan's First Wife) were also in the cast. Richard Libertini also appeared, as Father Drobney, and reprised the role in the 1969 film. The production was directed by Stanley Prager and produced by David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Miss (film)
''Junior Miss'' is a 1945 American comedy film starring Peggy Ann Garner as a teenager who meddles in people's love lives. A collection of Sally Benson's stories from ''The New Yorker'' was published by Doubleday as ''Junior Miss'' in 1941. This was adapted by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields into a successful play that same year. Directed by Moss Hart, ''Junior Miss'' ran on Broadway from 1941 to 1943. In 1945, the play was adapted to the film ''Junior Miss'' with George Seaton directing Peggy Ann Garner in the lead role of Judy Graves. ''Junior Miss'' was adapted as a radio series three times in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, with Shirley Temple and Barbara Whiting performing the lead role. Plot summary Lively and imaginative sisters Judy and Lois Graves, thirteen and sixteen years old, live in an apartment in New York City with their forgiving and patient mother and father, Harry, a lawyer, and Grace, a housewife. Judy's equally energetic friend Fuffy Adams frequently visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something For The Boys (film)
''Something for the Boys'' is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler. It stars Carmen Miranda, with Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan and Perry Como. The screenplay was by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Frank Gabrielson, based on the 1943 Broadway Musical of the same name, starring Ethel Merman with Cole Porter's songs. The film's story revolves around the adventures of three cousins who find themselves joint heirs to an abandoned mansion in Masonville, Georgia. Chiquita Hart, played by Miranda, Harry (Phil Silvers) and Blossom (Vivian Blaine) leave their jobs, and decide to reform the place and rent it for military spouses who are in the war front, combining the hostel service to performers shows. Judy Holliday can be spotted in a brief role six minutes into the film. This is her third film. Plot After cousins actress Blossom Hart (Vivian Blaine), defense plant worker Chiquita Hart (Carmen Miranda) and inventor Harry Hart (Phil Silvers) e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take It Or Leave It (1944 Film)
''Take It or Leave It'' is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Mac Benoff, Harold Buchman, and Snag Werris. It was the screen version of the popular radio quiz show of the same name, whose main feature was "the $64 question." Master of ceremonies Phil Baker played himself in the movie. Plot Sailor Eddie Collins (Edward Ryan) needs $1,000 to pay his wife's obstetrician. He is selected as a contestant on a special edition of '' Take It or Leave It'', and works his way up to the top prize of $64. Emcee Phil Baker, sympathetic to the sailor's plight, allows him to earn more money by asking additional $64 questions. Production and reception ''Take It or Leave It'' was produced on an exceptionally low budget for a major-studio motion picture. Twentieth Century-Fox producer Bryan Foy economized by casting inexpensive juveniles in principal roles (Edward Ryan, Marjorie Massow—later Madge Meredith—and Stanley Prager), with only a few charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Madison
Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series ''The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'' from 1951 to 1958. During his career, Madison was given a special Golden Globe Award in 1954 and two stars (radio, television) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Early life Madison was born in Pumpkin Center, California. He attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the United States Navy in 1942, during World War II. He had three brothers, Wayne, Harold and David, and a sister, Rosemary. Wayne Moseley was an actor, using the stage name Wayne Mallory. Career David O. Selznick In 1944, Madison was visiting Hollywood on leave when his boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Selznick's newly f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang Bang Kid
''Bang Bang Kid'' is a 1967 Western film produced by Sidney W. Pink and starring Tom Bosley. The film was distributed in America by Troma Entertainment Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. The company produces low-budget independent films, primarily of the horror comedy genre. Many of them pl .... Plot The plot revolves around a madcap inventor who constructs a mechanical gunfighter to fight against a tyrannical crime lord. References External links * 1967 films 1967 comedy films 1960s Western (genre) comedy films American Western (genre) science fiction films Films produced by Sidney W. Pink Films scored by Nico Fidenco Troma Entertainment films 1960s English-language films 1960s American films {{1960s-Western-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. As one of the key actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Hoffman has received numerous honors including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. He soon starred in the 1966 off-Broadway play '' Eh?'', for which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madigan's Millions
''Madigan's Millions'' (Italian language, It: ''Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi'', Spanish language, Sp: ''El Millón de Madigan'') is a 1968 Italian-Spanish comedy film, comedy crime film directed by Stanley Prager and produced by Sidney W. Pink. The movie was shot in 1966 but was not released for two years. It stars Dustin Hoffman, in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster. The film is in the lowbrow comedy genre, with comic stop-action chase scenes, as well as many scenes involving Spaghetti Western-style gunplay on the streets of Rome. Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly naive and mild-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies. The interiors of the film were shot largely in Spain, with exteriors in Rome. Plot Cast * Dustin Hoffman – Jason Fister * Elsa Martinelli – Vic Shaw * Ces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Pink
Sidney W. Pink was an American film producer and occasional director. He has been called the father of feature-length 3-D movies. He is also noted for producing early Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget science-fiction films, and for his role in actor Dustin Hoffman's transition from stage to screen. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1916, Pink died in 2002 at his home in Pompano Beach, Florida, following a long illness. Early life and education Pink was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1916, the second of Philip and Rose (née Ehrenworth) Pink's two sons. After playing the film producer in his high school's production of '' Merton of the Movies'', he realized this was the profession he would ultimately pursue, calling it his life's ambition. Pink earned a degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Film career Pink first worked as a projectionist in a movie theater owned by his wife's family and worked for years building and managing theatres. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patty Duke Show
''The Patty Duke Show'' is an American television sitcom created by Sidney Sheldon and William Asher. The series ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966. The series was developed as a vehicle for teenage star Patty Duke, who had won an Academy Award the previous year. Duke starred in dual roles of "twin cousins" Patty and Cathy Lane. The series co-starred William Schallert, Jean Byron, Paul O'Keefe, and Eddie Applegate. A total of 104 black-and-white episodes, plus an unaired pilot, were produced by United Artists Television. ABC abruptly cancelled the series after three seasons. Premise Patty Lane (Duke) is a normal, chatty, rambunctious teenager who (according to the theme song lyrics) lives in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City (although the setting and characters resemble the more simple and wholesome Middle America). Her father, Martin Lane (William Schallert), is the managing editor of the ''New York Daily Chronicle''; Patty affectionately addres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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