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That Touch Of Mink
''That Touch of Mink'' is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young and Audrey Meadows. Plot Cathy Timberlake, a New York career woman looking for a job, walks to the unemployment office to collect her check. There, she is subjected to the unwanted advances of Beasley, a clerk who's interested only in sex. Then, she meets business executive Philip Shayne after his Rolls-Royce splashes her dress with mud while on her way to a job interview. Philip wants to make up for the incident. Upon meeting, the two discover a strong mutual attraction. Cathy watches Phillip as he speaks at a UN session. Over time, Philip proposes a romantic affair, while Cathy holds out for marriage. In a minor subplot, Philip's financial manager, Roger, sees a therapist to discuss his guilt about helping his boss with numerous sexual conquests—including Cathy. But the therapist, who is discreetly absent from the room when Cathy's name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delbert Mann
Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film '' Marty'' (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world." Early life and education Delbert Martin Mann Jr. was born on January 30, 1920, in Lawrence, Kansas, to Delbert Mann Sr. and Ora (Patton) Mann (died 1961). His father taught sociology at the University of Kansas from 1920 to 1926. In 1926, the Manns left Lawrence and moved to Pennsylvania and then Chicago before finally settling in Nashville in 1931.George R. Zepp''Hidden History of Nashville'' The History Press, 2009 page 77 There, his father continued to teach sociology at the Scarritt College for Christian Workers. His mother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maris (born Maras; September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for setting a new List of Major League Baseball progressive single-season home run leaders, MLB single-season home run record with 61 home runs in 1961. Maris played in the Minor League Baseball, minor leagues from 1953 to 1956, and made his major league debut for the Cleveland Guardians, Cleveland Indians in 1957. He was traded to the Kansas City Athletics during the 1958 season, and to the New York Yankees after the 1959 season. Maris finished his playing career as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1967 and 1968. Maris was an AL Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star from 1959 through 1962, the AL Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, Most Valuable Player in 1960 and 1961, and an AL Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Gold Glove Award winner in 1960. Maris appeared in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Deacon (actor)
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Leave It to Beaver'', and ''The Jack Benny Program,'' along with minor roles in films such as '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Birds'' (1963). Career Deacon often portrayed pompous, prissy, and/or imperious figures in film and television. He made appearances on ''The Jack Benny Program'' as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's ''Happy'' as a hotel manager. He made a brief appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's film '' The Birds'' (1963). He played a larger role in '' Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956) as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of the film after its original previews. In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh’s ''The Spirit of St. Louis'', Deacon portrayed the chairm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Abbott
Dorothy Abbott (December 16, 1920 – December 15, 1968) was an American actress. Career Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Abbott acted in Little Theater productions to gain experience before she ventured into films. She appeared in many films between the 1940s and 1960s as an extra. In Las Vegas, she was a showgirl at the Flamingo Hotel and was known as "the girl with the golden arm". She also appeared in guest roles on '' The Ford Television Theatre'', '' Leave It to Beaver'', and '' Dragnet'' as Sergeant Joe Friday's girlfriend, Ann Baker. When she could not find work as an actress, she modeled and sold real estate. Death Depressed about the end of her marriage to police officer and actor Rudy Diaz, Abbott committed suicide in Los Angeles 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Livesey
Jack Edwards Livesey (11 June 1901 – 12 October 1961) was a British film actor. He was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, the son of Sam Livesey, the brother of Barry Livesey, and the cousin and step-brother of Roger Livesey. He died in Burbank, California, aged 60. On stage he appeared in the hit West End musical '' The Lisbon Story'' from 1943 to 1944. In 1960, he portrayed Gillespie MacKenzie in an episode of the Western series '' Maverick'' titled " Cruise of the Cynthia B" starring James Garner and Mona Freeman. Garner's character (Bret Maverick) finds him hanging from a tree in the opening scene, cuts him down, and subsequently regrets it. Partial filmography * ''The Divine Gift'' (1918) * ''La mille et deuxième nuit'' (1933) - Prince Tahar (English version, voice) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1933) - Godfrey, Duke of Normandy * ''Song of the Plough'' (1933) - Squire's Son * '' The Warren Case'' (1934) - Husband In Nightclub (uncredited) * '' The Passing of the Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willard Sage
James Willard Sage (August 13, 1922 – March 17, 1974) was a Canadian-American film and television actor. Born in London, Ontario. Sage began his career in 1951, where he appeared in the film ''The Butler's Night Off'', playing the role of a crook. He performed in New York where Sage played a lead role in the stage play ''Hobson's Choice''. Sage played the role of the killer Chester Davitt in the 1954 film '' Dragnet''. He then played the role of Tom Tattle in the 1955 film '' It's a Dog's Life''. He played the role of Jonathan Tatum in the 1956 film ''The Brass Legend''. Sage guest-starred in television programs including ''Perry Mason'', ''Room 222'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', ''Peter Gunn'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''Hogan's Heroes'', ''Death Valley Days'', ''Land of the Giants'', '' 12 O'Clock High'', ''The Deputy'', ''Rawhide'', ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'', ''My Three Sons'', '' The Virginian'', '' Star Trek: The Original Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fiedler
John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American actor. Recognizable for his high, flutey voice, Fiedler's career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio. Fiedler was typecast beginning early in his career for delicate, quiet, nerdy characters, although he also played sneaky villains. His roles include the meek Juror No. 2 in '' 12 Angry Men'' (1957); the seemingly benign gentleman who tries to prevent the Younger family from moving into a whites-only neighborhood in ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (1961); the voice of Piglet in Disney's ''Winnie the Pooh'' productions; Vinnie, one of Oscar's poker cronies, in the film '' The Odd Couple'' (1968); and Emil Peterson, the hen-pecked milquetoast husband on ''The Bob Newhart Show''. Early life Fiedler was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, a son of beer salesman Donald Fiedler and his wife Margaret (née Phelan). He was of German and Irish descent. His family moved to Shorewood, Wiscon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Mitchell
Laurie Mitchell (born Mickey Koren; July 14, 1928 – September 20, 2018) was an American actress and model. Mitchell was perhaps best known for her role as Queen Yllana, the ruler of Venus, in Edward Bernds's 1958 science-fiction film '' Queen of Outer Space''. Early life Mitchell was born in Manhattan on July 14, 1928. Her parents were Samuel and Adele Koren. She began her career in The Bronx where she was a child model. Her family moved to Los Angeles when Mitchell was in her teens. Career In 1954, she made her acting debut as a hooker opposite Kirk Douglas in ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''. She also appeared on television for the first time in an installment of Ford Television Theatre. She garnered a degree of fame in her role alongside Zsa Zsa Gabor in the 1958 science-fiction film '' Queen of Outer Space''. Mitchell has co-starring roles in the feature films '' Calypso Joe'' (1957) and ''That Touch of Mink'' (1962). She can also be seen in episodes of various Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Faye
Joey Faye (born Joseph Antony Palladino, July 12, 1909 or 1910 or 1902 – April 26, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. Born in New York City, he gained fame as a comic in vaudeville and claimed that he created two of vaudeville's more renowned pieces of business, "Floogle Street" (a.k.a. "Susquehana Hat Company") and " Slowly I Turned". In addition to an active career in vaudeville and the legitimate theater, he appeared in many movies and TV shows. Broadway The Republic Theatre was the site of Faye's New York stage debut at age 21. During World War II, he entertained Allied military personnel in Africa and Europe as part of a troupe headed by Marlene Dietrich. He was known for having the "fastest sneeze in the West". Faye played second banana to Phil Silvers in two Broadway shows, ''High Button Shoes'' and '' Top Banana''. He also appeared in the 1954 film. In a Broadway career that stretched between the late 1930s and the early 1990s, he appeared in 17 shows altogeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Sargent
Richard Stanford Cox (April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994), known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom ''Bewitched''. He took the name ''Dick Sargent'' from a ''Saturday Evening Post'' illustrator/artist of the same name. Early life Sargent was born Richard Stanford Cox in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, on April 19, 1930, to Ruth McNaughton and Colonel Elmer Cox. His mother was the daughter of John McNaughton, who founded Los Angeles's famed Union Stockyards. She appeared under the stage name of "Ruth Powell", and had supporting bit roles in such films as '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' and ''Hearts and Trumps'' with Alla Nazimova. Sargent's father Elmer served in World War I and later became a business manager to Hollywood figures, including Douglas Fairbanks and Erich von Stroheim. Sargent attended the San Rafael Military Academy in San Rafael, California, bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Astin
John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an American actor and director who has appeared in numerous stage, television and film roles, primarily in character roles. He is widely known for his role as patriarch Gomez Addams in ''The Addams Family (1964 TV series), The Addams Family'' (1964–1966), reprising the role in the television film ''Halloween with the New Addams Family'' (1977) and the animated series ''The Addams Family (1992 TV series), The Addams Family'' (1992–1993). Astin starred in the TV film ''Evil Roy Slade'' (1972). Other notable film roles include ''West Side Story (1961 film), West Side Story'' (1961), ''That Touch of Mink'' (1962), ''Move Over, Darling'' (1963), ''Freaky Friday (1976 film), Freaky Friday'' (1976), ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'' (1985), ''Teen Wolf Too'' (1987) and ''The Frighteners'' (1996). Astin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his directorial debut, the comedic short ''Prelude'' (1968). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Hewitt
Alan Hewitt (January 21, 1915 – November 7, 1986) was an American film, television, and stage actor. His most prominent TV roles were Detective Brennan in ''My Favorite Martian'' and the district attorney in '' How to Murder Your Wife''. Early years Hewitt was born and educated in New York City and entered Dartmouth College when he was 15, graduating in 1934. His acting debut was in a school production at age 10. Stage Hewitt first appeared on the New York stage in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' in 1935, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He later toured with them in that play. in 1936–37, he appeared again with Lunt and Fontanne in productions of '' Amphitryon 38'' and '' The Sea Gull''. His obituary in ''The New York Times'' noted that he "scored his biggest successes on Broadway in William Saroyan's ''Love's Old Sweet Song'' and John Steinbeck's '' The Moon Is Down.''" During World War II Hewitt served in the US Army's Armed Forces Radio Service from 1943 to 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
