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List Of Private Secretary Episodes ...
This is a list of episodes of the television series ''Private Secretary'' (known as ''Susie'' in syndication). The series aired on CBS from February 1, 1953, to March 17, 1957, for a total of 104 episodes. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1953) Season 2 (1953–54) Season 3 (1954–55) Season 4 (1955–56) Season 5 (1956–57) References External links *{{IMDb episodes, id=0045435, title=Private Secretary Private Secretary A private secretary (PS) is a civil servant in a governmental department or ministry, responsible to a secretary of state or minister; or a public servant in a royal household, responsible to a member of the royal family. The role exists in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Secretary (TV Series)
''Private Secretary'' (also known as ''Susie'') is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953, to September 10, 1957, on CBS, alternating with ''The Jack Benny Program'' on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter. Overview Susie MacNamara (Sothern) is a former stage actress, a WAC veteran of World War II and single woman who works as the private secretary for theatrical agent Peter Sands (Porter) at the fictional New York theatrical agency International Artists Inc. Susie's honest, good-natured attempts to help Mr. Sands, especially in romantic matters, always leads to comedic complications. Susie is usually assisted by her best friend, Violet "Vi" Praskins ( Ann Tyrrell), the office's nervous and bumbling receptionist. In guest appearances, Jesse White played Mickey "Cagey" Calhoun, a chief competitor and loudmouthed agent business rival to Susie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Nyby
Christian Nyby (September 1, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1946) and '' Red River'' (1948). From 1953–1975 he was a prolific director of episodes in many television series, including ''Gunsmoke'' and ''Wagon Train''. As a feature film director, he is likely best known for ''The Thing from Another World'' (1951). Career Born in Los Angeles, California, and of Danish ancestry, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s. He edited four films directed by Howard Hawks (''To Have and Have Not'' (1944), ''The Big Sleep'' (1946), '' Red River'' (1948), and '' The Big Sky'' (1952)). Nyby was nominated for the Academy Award for ''Red River''. He had begun his career in the carpentry division at the studios, worked his way up to editor, then received his first directing credit on Hawks' 1951 production of ''The Thing from An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Benny
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film. He was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a long pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated summation "''Well!''" His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre. Benny portrayed himself as a miser who obliviously played his violin badly and claimed perpetually to be 39 years of age. Early life Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in Chicago, Illinois, on February 14, 1894, and grew up in nearby Waukegan. He was the son of Jewish immigrants Meyer Kubelsky (1864–1946) and Emma Sachs Kubelsky (1869–1917), sometimes called "Naomi". Meyer was a saloon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightclub Singer
A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a ''nightclub act''. A scheduled performance, such as a wedding gig, is a club date.Church , Joseph (2015). ''Music Direction for the Stage: A View from the Podium'', pp. 57–58. Oxford University. . Acts may resemble revues and, "a good part of the music heard in nightclubs is standard popular song (jazz standards and the so-called Great American Songbook) and theater music repertoire...comedy songs, novelty songs, and the occasional torch song." "Cabaret, literally, is a subset of nightclub performance...In actual modern usage the terms 'nightclub' and 'cabaret' are virtually interchangeable." The role of the female nightclub singer occurs frequently in fiction: books, movies, television, and even songs; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. A successful pilot may be used as the series premiere, the first aired episode of a new show, but sometimes a series' pilot may be aired as a later episode or never aired at all. Some series are commissioned straight-to-series without a pilot. On some occasions, pilots that were not ordered to series may also be broadcast as a standalone television film or special. A " backdoor pilot" is an episode of an existing series that heavily features supporting char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilt Trip
A guilt trip is a feeling of guilt or responsibility, especially an unjustified one induced by someone else. Overview Creating a guilt trip in another person may be considered to be manipulation in the form of punishment for a perceived transgression. George K. Simon interprets the guilt trip as a special kind of intimidation tactic. A manipulator suggests to the conscientious victim that he or she does not care enough, is too selfish or has it easy. This usually results in the victim feeling bad, keeping them in a self-doubting, anxious and submissive position. There are limited studies examining guilt trips, and those studies tend to focus on guilt trips in parent–child relationships.Humeny C (2013)A Qualitative Investigation of a Guilt Trip Conference Paper Conference: Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University Spring Proceedings Types Three types of guilt trip are proposed: * Tongue-in-cheek * Moral education * Side effect. See also References Further r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Rudolph
Oscar Rudolph (April 2, 1911 – February 1, 1991) was an American film and television director, producer, and actor. Life and career Rudolph was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1924 moved to Southern California with his family. He started his Hollywood entertainment career as a bit actor at the age of 14. His first film was ''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925), which starred legendary silent film actress Mary Pickford. He appeared in a total of 36 films in mostly uncredited or bit roles from 1925 to 1947, when he appeared in his last role in the film ''Easy Come, Easy Go''. Rudolph was a director from the early 1940s to the mid 1970s. He began as an assistant director on a number of films throughout the 1940s and then made the transition to the burgeoning genre of television in the 1950s. He was supervising the second unit of '' The Flight of the Phoenix'' when stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed in a crash in July 1965. Rudolph directed episodes of more than 500 television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Gershe
Leonard Gershe (June 10, 1922 – March 9, 2002) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist. Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue '' Alive and Kicking''. He wrote the book for Harold Rome's musical stage adaptation of ''Destry Rides Again'' in 1959 and the play ''Butterflies Are Free'' in 1969. Later Gershe wrote the play ''Snacks'' for Tony Danza. He wrote the lyrics for the "Born in a Trunk" sequence from the Judy Garland/James Mason musical '' A Star Is Born''.Gershe and Garland were born on the same day. Roger Edens, who wrote the music, was not credited due to a contractual issuePersonal letter to Jim Johnson In the 1950s, Gershe wrote 10 scripts for the Ann Sothern sitcom ''Private Secretary''. He also wrote a number of episodes of ''The Lucy Show''. His screen credits include ''Funny Face'', ''40 Carats'', and ''Butterflies Are Free''. According to World of Wonder website writer Stephen Rutledge, Gershe had a lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sig Herzig
Sig Herzig (July 25, 1897 – March 12, 1985) was an American screenwriter and playwright. Biography Born Siegfried Maurice Herzig in New York City, Herzig began his career as the director of the comedy short ''Husband and Strife'' (1922), but he switched gears to create plot lines for more than three dozen silent films. His later screen credits included the screenplays for ''Artists and Models'' (1937), '' Marry the Girl'' (1937), ''On Your Toes'' (1939), '' Sunny'' (1941), ''I Dood It'' (1943), '' Brewster's Millions'' (1945), '' London Town'' (1946), and '' Three on a Spree'' (1961), another adaptation of '' Brewster's Millions''. Herzig's Broadway theatre credits included ''The Vanderbilt Revue'' (1930), ''Shoot the Works'' (1931), ''Ballyhoo of 1932'' (1932), ''Vickie'' (1942), and '' Bloomer Girl'' (1944). Herzig's television credits included '' Topper'', ''Private Secretary'', and ''Sugarfoot''. Herzig died in Thousand Oaks, California. Partial filmography *'' O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Leslie
Nanette June Leslie (June 4, 1926 – July 30, 2000) was an American actress. She was known for playing Martha McGivern in the American western television series '' The Californians''. Life and career Leslie was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Alma and Frank Leslie, a salesman. Leslie attended University High School. She began her career in 1945 in the film '' Under Western Skies''. Leslie starred, co-starred and appeared in other films such as '' Guns of Hate'', '' The Devil Thumbs a Ride'', '' Under the Tonto Rim'', '' Sunset Pass'', ''The Miracle of the Hills'', '' Western Heritage'', '' The Arizona Ranger'', '' Wild Horse Mesa'' and '' I'll Remember April''. Between 1949 and 1955 Leslie appeared in eight episodes of ''The Lone Ranger''; the most appearances in the series by any actress. In 1954, Leslie guest-starred in the western television series '' Annie Oakley''. She also guest-starred in ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' and '' The Cisco Kid'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madge Blake
Madge Blake (née Cummings; May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress best remembered for her role as Larry Mondello's mother, Margaret Mondello, on the CBS/ ABC sitcom '' Leave It to Beaver'', as Flora MacMichael on the ABC/CBS sitcom ''The Real McCoys'', and as Aunt Harriet Cooper in 96 episodes of ABC's ''Batman''. Gene Kelly had a special affection for her and included her in each of his films following her role in '' An American in Paris''. Early life Blake was born in Kinsley in Edwards County, south-central Kansas, to Albert Cummings and the former Alice Stone. Her father was a Methodist circuit rider who discouraged her from becoming an actress, thus she did not enter acting until later in life, despite her family's relocation from Kansas to Southern California. During World War II, Blake and her husband James Lincoln Blake worked in Utah on construction of the detonator for the atomic bomb and performed such jobs as testing equipment d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
