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Max Liebman Presents
''Max Liebman Presents'', aka ''Max Liebman Spectaculars'', is an American television musical variety series, presented monthly in a 90-minute format on NBC, beginning September 12, 1954, and ending on June 6, 1956. Throughout the show's run, episodes were broadcast on Saturdays beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. In the second season, the same title was also used for a show with a different format on Sundays beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET. Overview Saturday episodes consisted mainly of musical comedies, the first of which was '' Satins and Spurs''. They included '' Babes in Toyland'', '' Best Foot Forward'', '' Lady in the Dark'', and ''The Merry Widow''. Featured performers included John Conte, Robert Cummings, Dennis Day, Dave Garroway, Edward Everett Horton, Ann Jeffreys, Jack E. Leonard, and Marilyn Maxwell. Episodes on Sundays were musical revues. Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander formed a dance team that appeared regularly, and Charles Sanford's orchestra often provided musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Conte (actor)
John Conte (September 15, 1915 – September 4, 2006) was an American stage, film and TV actor, and television station owner. Early years Conte was born in Palmer, Massachusetts. His mother was Italian, and his father was French-Italian. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, when John was 5. While a student at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, Conte focused on classes in drama and for three years was the school's top entrant in Shakespearian competition. After graduating, he joined the Pasadena Playhouse and "took every role offered to him juvenile, leading man, character." He later got jobs as a radio actor and singer. Radio Conte entered broadcasting with a job at KFAC in Los Angeles. Two years later, he had become a network announcer. One of his first regular roles was on ''The Grape Nuts Program'' (1937–1938) with George Burns and Gracie Allen. Conte was host for ''Screen Test'' and master of ceremonies for the Maxwell House program that featured Fanny Brice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satins And Spurs
''Satin and Spurs'' is a 1954 American TV variety special with Betty Hutton. This was the first NBC special broadcast in color. The special originated from NBC's color studios in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. NBC would produce later specials from here, including ''Peter Pan'' with Mary Martin. Cast *Betty Hutton as Cindy * Guy Raymond as Tex *Josh Wheeler as Dick *Edwin Philips as Ollie *Kevin McCarthy as Tony *Neva Patterson as Ursula *Steve Allen made a special post-credits appearance to give a brief tour of the NBC Brooklyn studio and promote an upcoming special. Production The budget was $300,000.THE COLOR SHOWS: ' Satins and Spurs' and 'Royal Family' Open the Tinted Video Season By VAL ADAMS. New York Times 19 Sep 1954: X15. References External links''Satin and Spur''at IMDb''Satin and Spurs''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years. As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris. Early life and education Marcel Marceau was born on 22 March 1923 in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. His father, Charles Mangel, was a kosher butcher originally from Będzin, Poland. His mother, Anne Werzberg, came from Yabluniv, present-day Ukraine. Through his mother's family, he was a cousin of Israeli singer Yardena Arazi. When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to Lille, but they later returned to Strasbourg. After France's i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Choreography
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. With the exception of 2013, the award is given at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony. Starting in 2019, separate awards are given for scripted programs and reality or variety programs. Winners and nominations 1950s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Programs with multiple wins ;12 wins * ''So You Think You Can Dance'' ;5 wins * ''Dancing with the Stars'' ;2 wins * '' Fame'' * ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' Programs with multiple nominations ;43 nominations * ''So You Think You Can Dance'' ;22 nominations * ''Dancing with the Stars'' ;7 nominations * ''The Carol Burnett Show'' ;6 nominations * '' World of Dance'' ;5 nominations * ''Stars on Ice'' ;4 nominations * '' Fame'' * ''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' ;3 nominations * ''In Living Color'' * ''MADtv'' * '' Max Liebman Spectaculars'' * '' Savage X Fenty Show'' ;2 nominations * ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' * ''The Drew Carey Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Starbuck
James Starbuck (March 13, 1912, Albuquerque, New Mexico – August 13, 1997, Beverly Hills, California) was an American choreographer, ballet dancer, musical theatre actor, and stage and television director. He studied modern dance with Martha Graham and ballet with Adolph Bolm, Edward Caton, Vera Nemtchinova, and Anatole Oboukhov. He was a principal dancer with first the San Francisco Opera Ballet from 1935-1938 and then the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo from 1938-1944. He was notably the first American man to dance with the latter company. He portrayed roles in the original productions of several Broadway musicals, including both Freddy and Tito in '' Song of Norway'' (1944), Ivan Petrofski in '' Music in My Heart'' (1947), and Walt in '' Sleepy Hollow'' (1948). He also choreographed two Broadway musicals, '' Michael Todd's Peep Show'' (1950) and '' Oh Captain!'' (1958), and was the associate director of the Broadway play '' A Thurber Carnival'' (1960). A pioneering choreog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays '' The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, '' Street Scene'' (1929). Biography Early years Rice was born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein at 127 East 90th Street in New York City. His grandfather was a political activist in the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. After the failure of that political upheaval, he emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman. He spent most of his retirement years living with the Rice family and developed a close relationship with his grandson Elmer, who became a politically motivated writer and shared his grandfather's liberal and pacifist politics. A staunch atheist, his grandfather may also have influenced Elmer in his feelings about religion as he refused to attend Hebrew school or to have a bar mitzvah. In contrast, Rice's relationship with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a 29th Tony Awards, Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Saidy
Fred Saidy (February 11, 1907 – May 14, 1982) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Saidy began his writing career in 1943 with the screenplay for the Red Skelton comedy '' I Dood It''. The following year, he scripted both the Lucille Ball- Dick Powell feature film ''Meet the People'' and the book for the Harold Arlen- E. Y. Harburg musical ''Bloomer Girl''. It was the first of several collaborations with Harburg, which included '' Finian's Rainbow'' (1947), '' Flahooley'' (1951), ''Jamaica'' (1957), and '' The Happiest Girl in the World'' (1961). He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical for ''Jamaica''. Finian's Rainbow has had three major revivals (1955, 1960 and 1967), and was also made into a film starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in 1968. Saidy's last project was the screenplay for the film, for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Writt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Schwartz (writer)
Albert Schwartz (29 November 1910 – 25 March 1988) was an American screenwriter, television producer, and director. Biography He was a writer for ''The Red Skelton Show'', where he and other writers won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and were nominated for the same award in 1962. He also wrote scripts for ''The Jackie Gleason Show'', '' The Milton Berle Show'', ''The Brady Bunch'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''Petticoat Junction'', and other television shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Earlier in his career, Schwartz wrote for Bob Hope's radio program, ''The Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope''. Nachman, Gerald (1998). Raised on Radio, p. 144. Pantheon Books, New York. . He was the brother of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator and producer of ''Gilligan's Island'' and ''The Brady Bunch ''The Brady Bunch'' is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired five seasons from September 26, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Glickman
Will Glickman (March 7, 1910 – March 11, 1983) was an American playwright who frequently collaborated with Joseph Stein. Glickman made his Broadway debut in 1948 with sketches he and Stein wrote for the revue '' Lend an Ear''. The two went on to collaborate on '' Mrs. Gibbons' Boys'' (1949), '' Alive and Kicking'' (1950), '' Mr. Wonderful'' (1956), '' The Body Beautiful'' (1958), and '' Plain and Fancy'' (1955), which proved to be their biggest success, garnering a Tony nomination for Best Musical. Glickman's television credits include adaptations of '' The Desert Song'' and '' The Chocolate Soldier''. He also wrote scripts for ''The DuPont Show of the Month'' and ''The United States Steel Hour'', and collaborated with Fred Saidy and Neil Simon, among others, on ''Satins and Spurs'', an original musical for Betty Hutton, which was broadcast by NBC in September 1954. The Will Glickman Award, administered by the Will Glickman Foundation and Theatre Bay Area, has been bestowed s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Friedberg
William Friedberg (April 22, 1915 - April 7, 1965) was an American producer and screenwriter. Friedberg started his career in 1950 writing for ''All Star Revue''. In 1951 he appeared in the broadway play ''Two on the Aisle''. He also wrote an episode of ''The Colgate Comedy Hour'' with screenwriter Nat Hiken. He later wrote for 43 episodes of Hiken's comedy series ''The Phil Silvers Show''. Friedberg’s writing credits also include ''The Jackie Gleason Show'', ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' and '' Peter Loves Mary''. In 1957, he won a Primetime Emmy for Best Comedy Writing - Variety or Situation Comedy. Friedberg died in April 1965 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ..., at the age of 49. References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Liebman
Max Liebman (August 2, 1902 – July 21, 1981) was a Broadway theater and TV producer-director sometimes called the "Ziegfeld of TV", who helped establish early television's comedy vocabulary with '' Your Show of Shows''. He additionally helped bring improvisational comedy into the mainstream with his 1961 Broadway revue ''From the Second City''. Biography Max Liebman was born in Vienna, Austria, and emigrated to the United States during childhood. He attended Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York City. where his extracurricular activities included the debating society and school theater, including shows with classmate Arthur Schwartz, the future Broadway composer. In 1920, Liebman entered vaudeville as a comedy sketch-writer, and in 1924 or 1925 became social director at Camp Log Cabin or the Log Tavern in Pennsylvania. In 1932 or 1933 he was named theater director at Tamiment, a Pocono Mountains resort, where he would remain for 15 years. Concurrently, he made his Broadway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
