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Sunshine (1973 Film)
''Sunshine'' is a 1973 American made-for-television docudrama, directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by George Eckstein, about a young wife and mother who dies of cancer at age 20. The film stars Cristina Raines in the lead role of Kate Hayden (Raines' first big movie role), Cliff DeYoung as Kate's husband Sam Hayden, and twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush as Jill, Kate and Sam's daughter, as a toddler. It originally aired on CBS as an episode of the '' CBS Friday Night Movie'' on November 9, 1973. When first aired, ''Sunshine'' was the most watched made-for-TV film in history. The film uses John Denver's song "Sunshine on My Shoulders" as a theme. The song "My Sweet Lady" from the film reached #17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 Pop Chart in 1974, and #14 in Canada. Plot Young pregnant divorcee Kate (Cristina Raines) falls in love with struggling musician Sam Hayden (Cliff DeYoung), and they become a couple, eventually getting married. A few months into Kate and Sam's relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Sobieski
Carol Sobieski (March 16, 1939 – November 4, 1990) was an American screenwriter whose work included the scripts for ''Annie (1982 film), Annie'' (1982) and ''Fried Green Tomatoes (film), Fried Green Tomatoes'' (1991). Early life Sobieski was born Carol O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois, in 1939. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a politician and teacher. Five years later, the family moved close to Amarillo in Texas. Sobieski attended Smith College and received her Master's degree in Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. She married lawyer James Louis Sobieski in 1964, and they had three children. Film career In 1978, Sobieski won the Humanitas Prize for the television series ''Family (1976 TV series), Family''. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards, for ''Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking'' in 1977, and ''Sarah, Plain and Tall (film), Sarah, Plain and Tall'' in 1991. Sobieski and author Fannie Flagg were awarded the 1991 USC Scripter Award 1991, USC Scripter Award for their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent (which almost always involves combinations of drugs) or it may aim to prolong life or to reduce symptoms ( palliative chemotherapy). Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called ''medical oncology''. The term ''chemotherapy'' has come to connote non-specific usage of intracellular poisons to inhibit mitosis (cell division) or induce DNA damage, which is why inhibition of DNA repair can augment chemotherapy. The connotation of the word chemotherapy excludes more selective agents that block extracellular signals (signal transduction). The development of therapies with specific molecular or genetic targets, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice-over
Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-Diegetic#Film sound and music, diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations. The voice-over is read from a script and may be spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice actor. Synchronous dialogue, where the voice-over is narrating the action that is taking place at the same time, remains the most common technique in voice-overs. Asynchronous, however, is also used in cinema. It is usually prerecorded and placed over the top of a film or video and commonly used in Documentary film, documentaries or news reports to explain information. Voice-overs are used in video games and on-hold messages, as well as for announcements and information at events and tourist destinations. It may also be read live for events such as award presentations. Voice-over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Schiller
Lawrence Julian Schiller (born December 28, 1936) is an American photojournalist, film producer, director and screenwriter. Career Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to Jewish parents and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for ''Life'' magazine, ''Paris Match'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''Stern'', and ''The Saturday Evening Post'' as a freelance photojournalist. He published his first book, ''LSD'', in 1966. Since then Schiller has published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's book ''Minamata'' and Norman Mailer's '' Marilyn''. Having produced and directed the 1967 Capitol Records audio documentary album ''Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?'', he collaborated with Albert Goldman on the bestseller in 1974 ''Ladies and Gentleman--Lenny Bruce!!'', and also with Norman Mailer on the 1980 ''New York Times'' bestseller and the made-for-television motion picture of ''The Executioner's Song'' as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green River, Wyoming
Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 12,515 at the 2010 census. History The townsite of Green River, Dakota Territory was platted by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. Although the Territory of Wyoming was created on July 25, 1868, the Town of Green River was incorporated on August 21,1868 under the laws of the previous Territory of Dakota since the laws of the Wyoming Territory had yet to be written. The Town of Green River was re-incorporated on June 10, 1891 under the laws of the State of Wyoming to remove any ambiguity. The Union Pacific Railroad reached Green River on October 1, 1868 and was supposed to be the site of a division point for the railroad. Railroad officials were surprised to find that a town of 2000 residents and permanent adobe buildings had been established there, likely requiring costly negotiations for railroad land. They moved th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, ''Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noble Willingham
Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. (August 31, 1931 – January 17, 2004) was an American television and film actor who appeared in more than thirty films and in many television shows, including a stint opposite Chuck Norris in ''Walker, Texas Ranger''. Early life Willingham was the son of railroad worker and farmer Noble Henry Willingham, Sr, and Ruby Ladelle (née Speights). He was born in the small town of Mineola, in Wood County east of Dallas, Texas. After graduating in 1953 from North Texas State College in Denton, he earned a master's degree in educational psychology from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Willingham served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Career Willingham taught government and economics at Sam Houston High School in Houston before he followed his dream of becoming an actor. He auditioned for a part in ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971), which was filmed in Texas. He won the role, which led to another appearance, in '' Paper Moon'' (1973). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Stout
William Job "Bill" Stout (September 4, 1927 – December 1, 1989) was an American journalist and sometime actor, known for his radio and television broadcasting career with CBS News. Early life and education Stout was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 4, 1927. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in English. He enrolled when he was 16, and started classes as he turned 17. In college he edited the college newspaper and was active politically, advocating other students to join the picket lines at Warner Bros. following Hollywood Black Friday in October 1945. Stout advocated racial justice in a college newspaper editorial, and, in 1946, he represented UCLA in Prague at the founding meeting of the International Union of Students Career Newspaper Stout left UCLA in June 1947 at the age of 19 and t obtained work at the rival paper, ''The Minneapolis Times'', alongside freshman reporter Harry Reasoner who would later attain fame as a tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hong
James Hong (; born February 22, 1929) is an American actor, producer and director. He has worked in numerous productions in American media since the 1950s, portraying a variety of roles. With more than 650 film and television credits as of 2022, he is one of the most prolific actors of all time. Hong became known to audiences through starring in the detective series ''The New Adventures of Charlie Chan'' (1957–1958), and through frequent appearances on many television shows including the original ''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-O'' (1969–1974), ''Bonanza'' (1960), Perry Mason (1957 TV series), ''Perry Mason'' (1962–1963), ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' (1965–1966), I Spy (1965 TV series), ''I Spy'' (1965–1967), and Kung Fu (1972 TV series), ''Kung Fu'' (1972–1975). He has appeared in numerous films, in both comedic and dramatic roles, including Kahn the butler in ''Chinatown (1974 film), Chinatown'' (1974) and its sequel ''The Two Jakes'' (1990), Hanniba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Fischer
Corey John Fischer (February 28, 1945 – June 6, 2020) was an American actor. Early life and education Fischer was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in French and Theatre Arts from UCLA. Career In the mid-1960s, he worked in Los Angeles in improvisational theatre, notably with The Committee, and went on to work in film and television. An early film appearance was in the biker cult film ''Naked Angels'', and an early television appearance was in a 1966 episode of ''Daniel Boone''. Fischer appeared in Robert Altman's first three Hollywood movies: '' MASH'', ''Brewster McCloud'', and '' McCabe and Mrs. Miller'' and many of the best-known TV comedies of the 1970s, including ''All in the Family'', '' Sanford and Son'' and ''Barney Miller'' as well as the TV version of ''M*A*S*H''. In 1972-75 he played Givits, a guitar-playing ex-rabbinical student in '' Sunshine'' starting with the groundbreaking TV movie that became the prototype for a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge (February 27, 1944 – October 10, 2011) was an American actor known for his roles in four television programs, ''Man from Atlantis'', ''Eischied'', ''Paper Dolls'' and ''Bodies of Evidence'', along with a recurring role on '' 7th Heaven''. Early years Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of five. He acted with Mary MacMurtrie's Children's Theater in Tucson and with the Tucson Little Theater. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a major in theater. He received the university's Best Actor Award in two seasons worked with the Globe Theater in San Diego during one summer. Career On television, Fudge portrayed Lou Dalton in the drama '' 7th Heaven'', C. W. Crawford in the adventure series ''Man from Atlantis'', and Jim Kimbrough in the crime drama ''Eischied''. Fudge appeared in many television movies based on popular series, such as ''Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine'', ''Columbo: Columbo Goes to College'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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