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Suzanne Alexander
Suzanne Alexander (born Gwendolyn (or Gwendolynne) Ann White; September 8, 1931 – September 21, 1975) was a Canadian actress and model. Early life Alexander was the daughter of William James "Will" White (1887–1980) and Gwendolyn Haynes (1896–1978). Her father was a conductor and bandleader, while her mother was an actress who played Miss Canada in the film ''Victory's Call to Canada'' (1917). She had a brother named Will J. White, who became an actor as well. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Alexander was crowned Miss Studio City and Miss San Fernando Valley of 1949. Career Aged 19, she starred in the stage production of ''Detective Story'' alongside Frank Fiumara on June 4, 1951, at the Ivar Theater. This followed with starring roles in '' Cat-Women of the Moon'' (1953) as Beta and '' Down Three Dark Streets'' (1954) as Brenda Ralles. She appeared in various television series including ''Crossroads'', ''Public Defender'', and ''Racket Squad''. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Public Defender (TV Series)
''The Public Defender'' is an American legal drama television series that was broadcast on CBS from March 11, 1954, to June 23, 1955. Premise Reed Hadley had the title role of public defender Bart Matthews. Each episode opened with him in a courtroom setting explaining the role of a public defender and the increase in the number of public defenders from the first one (created in January 1913). In each episode Matthews sought to show that his client was not guilty or to at least obtain a shorter sentence if the person was guilty. He sometimes had to investigate to learn more facts about the client's situation. Hadley portrayed Matthews as "such a character as butter will not melt in his mouth. His hollow eyes and sepulchral voice are enlisted in the defense of parties at odds with the law by force of circumstances." Episodes were adapted from actual cases that occurred across the United States when people accused of crimes who could not afford an attorney were provided with one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Shirley MacLaine, numerous accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award, an Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bear for Best Actress, Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honor in 2014. MacLaine is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals ''Me and Juliet'' and ''The Pajama Game''. MacLaine's career bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Stage Actresses
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Married A Woman
''I Married a Woman'' is a 1958 American comedy film made in 1956, directed by Hal Kanter, written by Goodman Ace, and starring George Gobel, Diana Dors, and Adolphe Menjou. The picture was produced by Gobel's company, Gomalco Productions. ''I Married a Woman'' also features John Wayne in a cameo role as himself. It was filmed in RKO-Scope and black and white except for one of Wayne's two scenes, which was shot in Technicolor. The film's original title was ''So There You Are.'' The film was a box-office disappointment, which hurt the careers of Dors and Gobel. Plot Advertising executive Mickey Briggs is given 48 hours by his boss, Sutton, to come up with a campaign for client Luxemberg Beer, and save the company from ruin. Mickey neglects his wife, Janice, who once had been a "Miss Luxemberg" in a successful advertising campaign featuring various attractive models. Janice has just discovered she is expecting a baby, but is unable to inform Mickey, who is too distracted by wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garment Jungle
''The Garment Jungle'' is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone and Valerie French. Plot Alan Mitchell is a returning Korean War veteran who joins his father Walter's garment company, Roxton Fashions. The company has been paying protection money to gangsters led by Artie Ravidge to keep the union out. Walter's partner, Fred Kenner, sympathizes with the union's goals. After he tells Walter to sever his ties with the hoodlum enforcers, Kenner is killed when the freight elevator he enters, which was just 'fixed' by one of the hoods disguised as a repairman, plunges 12 stories to the bottom of the shaft. Tulio Renata is an organizer trying to bring the union into the factory; he also later gets murdered by Ravidge's men, and his wife Theresa Renata endures threats against herself and their child. Alan Mitchell comes to sympathize with the plight of the workers. When he finally convinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solid Gold Cadillac
Solid Gold Cadillac was a British jazz-rock group set up in the early 1970s. The band featured, variously, Roy Babbington (bass), Mike Westbrook (electric piano), Fi Trench (piano, organ), Chris Spedding (guitar), Brian Godding (guitar), Rick Morcombe (guitars), Malcolm Griffiths (trombone), Phil Minton (lead vocals, trumpet), George Khan (sax, flute), Butch Potter (bass) and Alan Jackson (drums). The band released two albums on RCA Records RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records (its former longtime rival), Arista Records and Epic R ...: ''Solid Gold Cadillac'' (1972) and ''Brain Damage'' (1973), re-released together on CD in 1999. References British jazz-rock groups British jazz ensembles British rock music groups {{Jazz-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing
''The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing'' is a 1955 American film directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. The CinemaScope film was released by Twentieth Century Fox, which had originally planned to put Marilyn Monroe in the title role, and then suspended her when she refused to do the film. The film relates a fictionalized account of real life events, when model and actress Evelyn Nesbit became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her paramour, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Plot Arriving nearly two hours late for a dinner reservation, multimillionaire Harry Thaw is indignant that his imagined rival, prominent architect Stanford White, has been given his table. The detested White has a higher social status; worse, White blackballed Thaw from membership at an exclusive club. Bobby Collier shows Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daddy Long Legs (1955 Film)
''Daddy Long Legs'' (1955) is a musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of Walston, Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the 1912 novel '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' by Jean Webster. This was the first of three consecutive Astaire films set in France or with a French theme (the others being ''Funny Face'' and ''Silk Stockings''), following the fashion for French-themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with ''An American in Paris'' (1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like ''The Band Wagon'', ''Daddy Long Legs'' did only moderately well at the box office. Plot Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with cheerful 18-year-old resident Julie André. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Of The Nile
''Princess of the Nile'' is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Harmon Jones and starring Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter and Michael Rennie. It was shot in technicolor and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Originally conceived as a more lavish film, it ended up produced as a second feature. Plot Egypt, 1249: The father of Princess Shalimar has fallen under the spell of the sinister Shaman, who drugs him and tries to keep daughter Shalimar a prisoner. She knows a secret passage, however, and slips away at night to entertain the oppressed villagers of Hanwan by disguising herself as Taura, a popular dancer in the Tambourine Tavern. Prince Haidi, the son of the caliph of Bagdad, rides into town accompanied by Captain Hussein, his close friend. At the same time, the menacing Rama Khan and his powerful army arrive. Rama Khan is conspiring with the Shaman to overthrow the Hanwan rulers. Hussein is killed by Khan, and in the confusion, Taura the dancing girl stabs Prince Haidi wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Nurse (film)
''Flight Nurse'' (aka ''Angels Take Over'' and ''Angels over Korea'') is a 1953 American drama war film directed by Allan Dwan and stars Joan Leslie and Forrest Tucker. The film is largely based on the life of Lillian Kinkella Keil, one of the most decorated women in American military history. Plot During the Korean War, United States Air Force nurse Lieutenant Polly Davis flies to Japan for her first assignment with the Medical Air Evacuation Unit. Hoping to be near her fiancé, helicopter pilot Captain Mike Barnes, she meets her roommates, Lieutenants Ann Phillips and Kit Ramsa, at the nurses' quarters in Tachikawa, but does not see Mike. The other nurses tell Polly that "flight nurses never get their men." Chief nurse Captain Martha Ackerman, sends them on their various assignments. Polly is taken to a C-47 transport aircraft to meet medical technician Sergeant Frank Swan and pilots Captains Bill Eaton and Tommy Metcalf. Her first experiences of war in Korea are jarring, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mod Squad
Mod, MOD or mods may refer to: Places * Modesto City–County Airport, Stanislaus County, California, US Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Mods (band), a Norwegian rock band * M.O.D. (Method of Destruction), a band from New York City, US * The Mods (band), a punk rock band from Toronto, Canada Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Manufactured on demand for CD, DVD distribution * ''Mod'' (film), 2011 * ''The Mods'' (film), 2014 * Video game modding * , a Scottish Gaelic festival * Media-on-demand * ''MuchOnDemand'', a Canadian TV program Brands and enterprises * Mod Club Theatre, Toronto, Canada * MOD Pizza, US Organizations * MoD, Ministry of defence of some countries ** MoD (UK), Ministry of Defence * Masters of Deception, a US hacker group * Ministry of Development (Brunei) Science and technology Computing and Internet * Mod, a module for Apache HTTP Server * Case modding of a computer * Forum moderator, of an online forum * Module file, a music file for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
