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Shirley Stoler
Shirley Stoler (March 30, 1929 – February 17, 1999) was an American actress best known for her roles in ''The Honeymoon Killers'' and Lina Wertmüller's ''Seven Beauties''. Early years The eldest of four children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn who owned a used furniture store, Stoler made her stage debut in 1955 and gained experience as a member of New York's experimental La Mama and Living Theatre companies. She had become a key underground player by the time she earned film fame in 1970 at age 41. Film and TV career Throughout her career, Stoler, a large and powerfully built woman who rarely smiled onscreen, often played scary villains in such films as ''Seven Beauties'' and ''The Honeymoon Killers'' and on television in an episode of ''Charlie's Angels''. A character actress, as well as an occasional lead, Stoler appeared in small roles in ''Klute'', ''The Deer Hunter'', and ''Desperately Seeking Susan''. A highlight of her film career was her per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State . Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge Of Night
''The Edge of Night'' is an American television mystery crime drama series and soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its run until November 28, 1975. The series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984. 7,420 episodes were produced, of which some 1,800 are available for syndication. Writer Sir P.G. Wodehouse, actresses Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt, were all reportedly devoted fans. Concept ''The Edge of Night'', whose working title was ''The Edge of Darkness'', premiered on April 2, 1956, as one of the first two half-hour serials on television, the other being ''As the World Turns''. Prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show was originally conceived as the daytime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series)
''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, and Ron O'Neal. Premise Frank Buck is big game trapper and collector of wild animals who works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting a range of villains in pre-war Malaya. He is assisted in his adventures by U.S. Consul Gloria Marlowe, and Ali, Buck's friend and number-one boy. Cast *Bruce Boxleitner as Frank Buck, big game trapper and collector of wild animals *Cindy Morgan as Gloria Marlowe, United States Consul, Singapore *Clyde Kusatsu as Ali, Buck's friend and number-one boy *Ron O'Neal as H.H., His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Johore *Sean McClory as Myles Delaney, manager of the Raffles Hotel *John A. Zee as G.B. Von Turgo, smuggler and kingpin of the Singapore underworld *Harvey Jason as Bhundi *George Lazenby as Captain Hayward, Head of the Palace Guard Production The show was based on a 1930 book, '' Bring 'Em Back Alive'', written by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splitz
''Splitz'' is a 1982 film starring Robin Johnson, Shirley Stoler and Forbes Riley. The film is about an all-girl rock band that joins up with an underdog sorority to help them win a series of athletic competitions. Plot Hooter College student Chuck (Chuck McQuary) has decided academics aren't going to get him anywhere in life, so he's taken to managing a band his classmates have formed called The Splitz, which consists of lead singer Joan (Patti Lee), guitarist Gina (Robin Johnson) and drummer Susie (Barbara Bingham). The Splitz struggle to make a name for themselves and resort to playing in dive bars where the patrons are more interested in boozing and brawling than appreciating the music. The day after a disastrous show, Chuck escorts Gina to her home, where he meets her former-mobster father, who becomes obsessed with the percentage of the band's income that Chuck is claiming. Chuck also meets Gina's cousin Vinnie, a sweet but oversexed meathead who can't score a date, so Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second-Hand Hearts
''Second-Hand Hearts'' is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Charles Eastman. A shorter version of this screenplay, under its original intended title ''The Hamster of Happiness'', was written by Eastman for the unconventional NBC anthology series ''NBC Experiment in Television'', which was broadcast in 1968 with Mildred Dunnock and Susan Tyrrell in the cast. It was the second of three films Ashby directed which were produced by Lorimar Productions. Plot description The film stars Barbara Harris as a manic, mercurial widow separated from her three children, and Robert Blake as an insecure loner who inadvertently marries her after the two of them go on a drunken bender. After losing his job soon after their marriage, she badgers him into taking her to recover her children, currently in the custody of her less-than-accommodating in-laws, and taking them all to California in the hope of a better life for them all. The film follows the unusual inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skag
''Skag'' is an American drama series that aired on NBC and starred Karl Malden. ''Skag'' originated as a three-hour television movie that aired on January 6, 1980 (as an installment of ''The Big Event''). Over a week later, it then premiered as a weekly series, Thursdays at 10/9c, which ran from January 17, 1980, until its cancellation on February 21, 1980. ''Skag'' focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Malden described his character, Pete Skagska, as a simple man trying to keep his family together. The series was created by Abby Mann, and executive produced by Mann and Lee Rich. Synopsis The opening three-hour movie pilot introduces viewers to 56-year-old Pete "Skag" Skagska (Malden), a hard-working steel mill foreman of Serbian-Orthodox ancestry, who dealt with a lot of fire in both his professional and personal lives. The dark lairs of welding, colossal machinery, and working-class ideals from the people he supervised was the only life Skag knew, unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Charlie's Angels Episodes
A list of episodes for '' Charlie's Angels'' (1976–1981). Series overview Episodes Pilot (1976) Season 1 (1976–77) Season 2 (1977–78) Season 3 (1978–79) Season 4 (1979–80) Season 5 (1980–81) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Charlie's Angels episodes, List of Charlie's Angels (franchise) Lists of American action television series episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Displaced Person
"The Displaced Person" is a novella by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find''. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work and her own family hired a displaced person after World War II. Plot summary The story takes place on a farm in Georgia, just after World War II in the 1940s. The owner of the farm, Mrs. McIntyre, contacts a Catholic priest to find her a "displaced person" to work as a farm hand. The priest finds a Polish refugee named Mr. Guizac who relocates with his family to the farm. Because the displaced person is quite industrious, the Shortleys, a family of white farm hands, feel threatened and try to manipulate Mrs. McIntyre into firing Guizac, but Mrs. McIntyre makes a decision to fire Shortley instead because of his unsatisfactory work. Formerly a staunch atheist, Mrs. Shortley has taken to reading the Bible and experiences a vision of the Ophanim. Soon afterwards she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Real Young Girl
''A Real Young Girl'' (french: Une vraie jeune fille) is a 1976 French drama film about a 14-year-old girl's sexual awakening, written and directed by Catherine Breillat. The film, Catherine Breillat's first, was based on her fourth novel, ''Le Soupirail''. This film is notable for its graphic depiction of sex scenes, which include Charlotte Alexandra exposing her breasts and vulva and the male actors displaying their penises. This led to the film being banned in many countries, and it was not released to theatres until 2000. Plot Alice Bonnard is a 14-year-old girl attending a boarding school in France who comes back to her home in the Landes forest for the summer of 1963. She flashes back to her time at school, where she frequently masturbated out of boredom; in one scene, she inserts a spoon into her vagina. Her father hires a young man named Jim, with whom Alice immediately becomes infatuated. Alice has a graphic sexual fantasy in which Jim ties her to the ground with barbed w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Fernandez And Martha Beck
Raymond Martinez Fernandez (December 17, 1914 – March 8, 1951) and Martha Jule Beck (May 6, 1920 – March 8, 1951) were an American serial killer couple. They were convicted of one murder, are known to have committed two more, and were suspected of having killed up to 20 victims during a spree between 1947 and 1949. After their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949, they became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" for meeting their unsuspecting victims through personal ads, posted in newspaper lonely hearts columns. A number of films and television shows are based on this case. Before the murders Raymond Fernandez Raymond Martinez Fernandez was born on December 17, 1914 in Hawaii to Spanish parents. Shortly thereafter, they moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. As a teenager, he went to work on his uncle’s farm in Spain, married a local woman in Spain, named Encarnación Robles, at the age of 20, and had four children, all of whom he abandoned later in life. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Astounding She-Monster
''The Astounding She-Monster'' is a 1958Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. . Page 731 science fiction horror film starring Robert Clarke and directed, co-written and produced by Ronnie Ashcroft for Hollywood International Productions. The film focuses on a geologist, a gang which has kidnapped a rich heiress, and their encounter with a beautiful but deadly female alien who has crashed to Earth. In the UK, it was released as ''The Mysterious Invader''.Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. . Page 731 The film was released in American theaters on April 10, 1958 by American International Pictures on a double feature with Roger Corman's ''The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent.''Warren, Bill (1986). "Keep Watching The Skies Volume 2". McFarland & Co., Inc. . Page 731 Plot Gangsters Nat Burdell (Kenne Duncan) and Brad Conley (Ewing Miles Brown) kidnap weal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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