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Benji's Very Own Christmas Story
''Benji's Very Own Christmas Story'' is a 1978 American Christmas television special featuring Benji and is one of two such ''Benji'' specials to have been nominated for an Emmy Award. Patsy Garrett and Cynthia Smith reprise their respective roles as Mary and Cindy. The special was broadcast on ABC on December 7, 1978. Plot Mary and Cindy from the ''Benji'' films are on a promotional tour in Switzerland and are asked to be grand marshalls of a Christmas parade in Zermatt. Due to a broken leg, Kris Kringle is sending his elves out to deliver presents, and, as this will force them to miss the parade, he wants them to meet Benji first. With help from Mary and Cindy, Kringle realizes the true meaning of Christmas and performs a musical number showing how Saint Nicholas appears all over the world. Cast * Benjean as Benji (daughter of original Benji, Higgins) * Patsy Garrett as Mary * Cynthia Smith as Cindy Chapman * Ron Moody as Kris Kringle Crew The show was directed by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Camp
Joseph Shelton Camp Jr. (April 20, 1939 – March 15, 2024) was an American film director and writer who is best known as the creator and director of the '' Benji'' films, as well as ''Hawmps!'' and ''The Double McGuffin''. He made over $600 million in gross income and was one of the most successful independent filmmakers in history. He studied advertising and marketing at the University of Mississippi from 1957 to 1961. He married his college sweetheart, Carolyn Hopkins, in 1960. He was with her until her death from heart disease in 1997. He married a second and final time to Kathleen Camp in 2001, whom he was with until his death in 2024. Camp was also known for his work with horses. He owned and trained five horses at his Valley Center Ranch where he lived in Valley Center, California. He wrote two books about his experiences with horses, ''The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd'' and ''Born Wild: The Journey Continues''. He wrote eleven more books including three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Waltons
''The Waltons'' is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural mountainous Western Virginia of the Appalachian Mountains / Allegheny Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chain, during the economic hardships and mass unemployment of the era of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the subsequent United States home front during World War II of the 1940s. It was created by screenwriter / author Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book ''Spencer's Mountain''. ''The Waltons'' aired from 1972 to 1981, but relocated to the fictional Walton's Mountain, Virginia, in the Depression era 1930s and wartime (World War II) 1940s. The television film, TV film special ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'' was broadcast on December 19, 1971. Based on its high ratings and critical responses success, the CBS network ordered the first season of episodes (to be based on the same characters, with some changes in the casting) which became known as the television series ''The Walto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Little Romance
''A Little Romance'' is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, and 13-year-old Diane Lane in her film debut. The screenplay was written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill, based on the novel ''E=mc2 Mon Amour'' (1977) by Patrick Cauvin. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue. The film follows a French boy and an American girl who meet in Paris and begin a romance that leads to a journey to Venice where they hope to seal their love forever with a kiss beneath the Bridge of Sighs at sunset. The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Score for Georges Delerue and received an additional nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Allan Burns. It also received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Laurence Olivier and Best Original Score for Delerue. As the film's young leads, Thelonious Bernard and Diane Lane both received Young Artist Award nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Lane
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Lane made her film debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film '' A Little Romance''. She had already been professionally acting on stage since the age of six. Later, she acted in the movies '' Streets of Fire'' (1984) and '' The Cotton Club'' (1984). Lane returned to acting to appear in '' The Big Town'', '' Lady Beware'' (both 1987) and the Western miniseries '' Lonesome Dove'' (1989), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Lane earned further recognition for her role in '' A Walk on the Moon'' (1999), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. This was followed by several film roles of varying degrees of success, such as '' My Dog Skip'', '' The Perfect Storm'' (both 2000), '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trini Alvarado
Trinidad "Trini" Alvarado (born January 10, 1967) is an American actress best known for her performances as Margaret "Meg" March in the Little Women (1994 film), 1994 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel ''Little Women'' and Lucy Lynskey in the comedy horror film ''The Frighteners''. She also has had notable stage performances and singing roles in musicals. Personal life Alvarado was born in New York City, the daughter of Sylvia, a Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican flamenco dancer, and Domingo Alvarado, a Spanish-born flamenco singer. As a child, she lived on upper Riverside Drive (Manhattan) on the Upper West Side. She attended the Professional Children's School and studied at Fordham University. Alvarado said in a ''People'' magazine interview for the movie ''Stella (1990 film), Stella'': "I lead kind of a quiet life. I just grew up that way." Alvarado more or less stays out of the limelight and is a self-described homebody; she revealed during the promotion for ''The Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan (1979 Film)
''Manhattan'' is a 1979 American Romance film, romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman. Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend's (Michael Murphy (actor), Michael Murphy) mistress (Diane Keaton). Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne (actress), Anne Byrne also star. ''Manhattan'' was Allen's first film in black-and-white, and was shot in Aspect ratio (image)#Previous and currently used aspect ratios, 2.35:1 widescreen. It features music by George Gershwin, including ''Rhapsody in Blue'', which inspired the film. Allen described the film as a combination of ''Annie Hall'' and ''Interiors''. Upon its release in April 1979 by United Artists, ''Manhattan'' received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hemingway and Academy Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariel Hemingway
Mariel Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in ''Lipstick'' (1976), and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's ''Manhattan'' (1979). She had leading roles in '' Personal Best'' (1982), '' Star 80'' (1983), and the TV series ''Civil Wars'' for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Hemingway's acting career slowed in the late 1990s, and she focused on advocating for mental health awareness. She contributed to the acclaimed documentary '' Running from Crazy'' regarding her family's struggles with mental illness. Early life She is the daughter of Jack Hemingway and Byra Louise "Puck" Whittlesey. Her paternal grandparents were Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson while Grace Hall Hemingway was her paternal great-grandmother. Hemingway's sisters were Joan "Muffet" and Margot "Margaux"; the latter was a model and actress. Career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just You And Me, Kid
''Just You and Me, Kid'' is a 1979 American comedy film starring George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger, Leon Ames, Carl Ballantine, Keye Luke and Burl Ives. It was directed by Leonard B. Stern and was released in July 1979 by Columbia Pictures. Plot Bill is an elderly ex-vaudevillian who lives alone, often looking at photographs of his deceased wife. Each day after breakfast, he goes to the supermarket, where he is friendly to employees, often charming them with a magic trick. Kate is a 14-year-old teenager who gets in a squabble with an intimidating man named Demesta. The girl, who is wrapped in a towel and apparently otherwise nude, has locked herself in a bathroom to evade him. Demesta pounds on the door and demands to know the details of a drug deal that Kate has fouled up. Kate escapes through the window, wearing only the towel, while a police officer knocks on the door of the apartment and grapples with Demesta. He is chased down the street while s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby'' (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including ''The Blue Lagoon (1980 film), The Blue Lagoon'' (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's ''Endless Love (1981 film), Endless Love'' (1981). In 1983, Shields suspended her modeling career to attend Princeton University, where she subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Romance languages. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and appeared in minor roles in films. She also starred in the NBC sitcoms ''Suddenly Susan'' (1996–2000), for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, and ''Lipstick Jungle (TV series), Lipstick Jungle'' (2008–2009). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanover Street (film)
''Hanover Street'' is a 1979 romantic war film written and directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer. Plot In London during World War II, Lieutenant David Halloran, a United States Army Air Forces B-25 bomber pilot with the Eighth Air Force, and Margaret Sellinger, an English nurse, meet on Hanover Street in a chance encounter. The following day, Halloran's squadron is sent to bomb Rouen in Nazi-occupied France when the plane's engine is hit, but the fire is put out. Cimino, the bombardier, begs Halloran to let him drop the bombs early and turn back, but Halloran does not care about the danger and orders him to wait until they are over the target, prompting Cimino to angrily exclaim that he hates Halloran. Halloran and Sellinger meet again two weeks later in a secret assignation on Hanover Street and they rapidly fall in love. Although she is married and tries to resist, she is drawn to the charismatic American and they b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Kensit
Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child actor, Kensit gained attention when she acted in a string of commercials for Birds Eye frozen peas. She went on to appear in films such as '' The Great Gatsby'' (1974), ''Gold'' (1974), '' Alfie Darling'' (1975), '' Hennessy'' (1975), '' The Blue Bird'' (1976) and '' Hanover Street'' (1979). Balancing a dual career as both an actress and a singer, in 1983 Kensit formed and became the lead singer of the pop band Eighth Wonder. The group released several singles, including the top 20 hits " I'm Not Scared" and " Cross My Heart", before disbanding in 1989. Kensit achieved further success in her breakthrough role as Suzette in the musical film '' Absolute Beginners'' (1986) and as Rika van den Haas in ''Lethal Weapon 2'' (1989) before starring in the films '' Blue Tornado'' (1991), '' Timebomb'' (1991), '' Twenty-One'' (1991), '' Blame It on the Bellboy'' (1992), '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
