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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] (
listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
On February 16, 2005, California Assembly Members Jackie Goldberg and Paul Koretz introduced a bill to require California to keep specific records on Hollywood as if it were independent, although it is not the typical practice of the City of Los Angeles to establish specific boundaries for districts or neighborhoods. For this to be done, the boundaries were defined. The bill was unanimously supported by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. Assembly Bill 588 was approved by the Governor of California on August 28, 2006, and now the district of Hollywood has official borders. The border can be loosely described as the area east of West Hollywood, south of Mulholland Drive, Laurel Canyon, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Barham Boulevard, and the cities of Burbank and Glendale, north of Melrose Avenue and west of the Golden State Freeway and Hyperion Avenue. This includes all of Griffith Park and Los Feliz[citation needed] – two areas that were hitherto considered separate from Hollywood by most Angelenos. The population of the district, including Los Feliz, as of the 2000 census was 123,436 and the median household income was $33,409 in 1999.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (
i/ˈnɛðərləndz/; Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdə(r)lɑnt] or [ˈneɪ̯də(r)lɑnt] (
listen); West Frisian: Nederlân; Papiamento: Hulanda) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with some islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is a parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. The country capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague. The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces (a case of pars pro toto; see terminology of "the Netherlands").
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] ( listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated. Located north of Manhattan and Queens, and south of Westchester County, the Bronx is the only borough that is located primarily on the mainland (a very small portion of Manhattan, the Marble Hill neighborhood, is physically located on the mainland, due to the rerouting of the Harlem River in 1897). The Bronx's population is 1,400,761 according to the 2010 United States Census. The borough has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2), making it the fourth-largest in land area of the five boroughs, the fourth most populated, and the third-highest in density of population.
The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, closer to Manhattan, and the flatter East Bronx, closer to Long Island. The West Bronx was annexed to New York City (then largely confined to Manhattan) in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. The Bronx first assumed a distinct legal identity when it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. Bronx County, with the same boundaries as the borough, was separated from New York County (afterwards coextensive with the Borough of Manhattan) as of January 1, 1914. Although the Bronx is the third-most-densely-populated county in the U.S., about a quarter of its area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo in the borough's north and center, on land deliberately reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed northwards and eastwards from Manhattan with the building of roads, bridges and railways.
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The Great Movie Ride
The Great Movie Ride is an attraction at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park. It is a dark ride which takes guests through scenes from famous films throughout motion picture history.
The ride is located inside a recreation of the famous Hollywood landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre. However, because The Walt Disney Company was denied permission to use the name "Grauman," the proper name of the building is simply "The Chinese Theatre." (Also, at the time the attraction was opened, the actual Grauman's Theater was officially known as "Mann's Chinese Theater" as it was owned by the Mann film theater group.) The façade was almost completely blocked from view in 2001 when a giant replica of The Sorcerer's Hat was built directly in front of the façade. Since then, the hat has served as the park's symbol.
Scenes from all major film studios are represented in the film montage with one notable exception; there is no reference to any motion pictures released by Universal Studios (whose parent company operates the rival Universal Orlando Resort nearby).
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Walt Disney World
Coordinates: 28°25′7″N 81°34′52″W / 28.41861°N 81.58111°W / 28.41861; -81.58111
The Walt Disney World Resort (also known informally as Disney World) is the world's most-visited entertainment resort. Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of 30,080 acres (12,173 ha; 47 sq mi) and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels (excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.
The resort was originally developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s to supplement Disneyland in California. In addition to hotels and a theme park similar to Disneyland, Walt's original plans for the resort also included an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow", a planned city that would serve as a test bed for new innovations for city living. After extensive lobbying, the Government of Florida created the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special government district that essentially gave the Disney Company the standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city. Walt died in 1966 before his original plans were fully realized.
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Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.
Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg (1896–1939) and his wife, Mabel Lum (1901–1967). While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for another woman. They did not hear of him again until they received a telegram in 1939, informing them of his suicide. Along with her older sister Marion, Betty was raised by her mother, who took the surname Hutton and was later billed as the actress Sissy Jones.
The three started singing in the family's speakeasy when Betty was 3 years old. Troubles with the police kept the family on the move. They eventually landed in Detroit, Michigan. (On one occasion, when Betty, preceded by a police escort, arrived at the premiere of Let's Dance (1950), her mother, arriving with her, quipped, "At least this time the police are in front of us!") Hutton sang in several local bands as a teenager, and at one point visited New York City hoping to perform on Broadway, where she was rejected.
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminski; January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs.
Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), and — perhaps his most accomplished performance — The Court Jester (1956). His films were extremely popular, especially his bravura performances of patter songs and children's favorites such as The Inch Worm and The Ugly Duckling. He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.
David Daniel Kaminski was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn. Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminski and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Ekaterinoslav two years before his birth; he was the only one of their sons born in the United States. He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. His mother died when he was in his early teens. Clara enjoyed the impressions and humor of her youngest son and always had words of encouragement for them; her death was a great loss for young Danny.
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Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007) was a Scottish film and television actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. She was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards.
She was nominated six times for Academy Award for Best Actress but never won. In 1994, however, she was awarded the Academy Honorary Award, cited by the Academy as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". Her films include The King and I, An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Quo Vadis, The Innocents, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Separate Tables.
Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in a private nursing home (hospital) in Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr-Trimmer, a World War I veteran pilot who later became a naval architect and civil engineer. Directly after her birth she spent the first three years of her life in the nearby town of Helensburgh, where her parents lived with Deborah's grandparents in a house on West King Street. Kerr had a younger brother, Edward (a.k.a. Teddy), who became a journalist and died in a "road-rage" incident in 2004.
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Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man of darker projects.
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s.
Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros. was sufficiently impressed by Powell's singing and stage presence to offer him a film contract in 1932. He made his film debut as a singing bandleader in Blessed Event. He went on to star as a boyish crooner in movie musicals such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, Flirtation Walk, and On the Avenue, often appearing opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.
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Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Some People", "Rose's Turn", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "It's De-Lovely", "Friendship", "You're the Top", "Anything Goes", and "There's No Business Like Show Business", which later became her theme song.
Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann in her maternal grandmother's house located at 265 4th Street in Astoria, Queens, in New York City in 1908, though she would later emphatically declare that it was actually 1912. Her father, Edward Zimmermann (1879–1977), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes (née Gardner; 1883–1974), was a school teacher. Zimmermann had been raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and his wife was Presbyterian, but shortly after they were wed they joined the Episcopalian congregation at Church of the Redeemer, where Merman was baptized. Her parents were strict about church attendance, and every Sunday she spent the day there, first at morning services, followed by Sunday school, an afternoon prayer meeting, and an evening study group for children.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism.
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Georgia Tann
Georgia Tann, born Beulah George Tann (1891 - September 1950), operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation closed the institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public.
Tann used pressure tactics, threats of legal action and other methods to take children from their birth parents—mostly poor single mothers—and sell them to wealthy patrons. Tann also arranged for the taking of children born to inmates at Tennessee mental institutions and those born to wards of the state through her connections.
Tann also arranged for what her victims (now adult) refer to as kidnapping. In some cases, single parents would drop their children off at nursery schools, only to be told that welfare agents had taken the children. In others, children would be temporarily placed with the society because a family was experiencing illness or unemployment, only to find out later that the Society had either adopted them out, or had no record of the children ever being placed. Tann was also documented as taking children born to unwed mothers at birth, claiming that the newborns required medical care. When the mothers asked about the children, Tann told them that the babies had died, when they were actually placed in foster homes or adopted.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of actress screen legends.
Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the only child of William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977). Ginger's parents separated soon after her birth, and she and her mother went to live with her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, in nearby Kansas City. Rogers' parents fought over her custody. After her mother denied him visitation, her father reportedly absconded with his daughter twice. After her parents divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood. Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios).[citation needed]
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance. She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duties in Monaco. She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie. She also retained her American roots, maintaining dual US and Monégasque citizenships.
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Hal Le Roy
Hal Le Roy (10 December 1913 – 2 May 1985) was a dancer, actor and singer appearing on stage, in film and on television.
Le Roy was born John LeRoy Schotte in Cincinnati in 1913. He broke into New York theater as a dancer, and quickly worked his way into Broadway roles where his dance style created a sensation in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies. On 12 April 1934, he married Ruth Hedwig Dod (born 13 March 1911, died 1 July 1979), who had been one of his dance partners. He also began doing a series of musical film shorts for Vitaphone and Warner Brothers Pictures.
Aside from his work on Broadway and in film, he also performed in revues, vaudeville and as a featured entertainer in New York's nightclub scene. Le Roy died in 1985 of post-operative complications following heart surgery.
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Lemmon was born in an elevator[citation needed] at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947), where he lived in Adams House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs - becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club - as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.
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Jane Powell
Jane Powell (born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; April 1, 1929) is an American singer, dancer and actress.
After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens. Once there, the studio utilized her vocal, dancing and acting talents, casting her in such musicals as Royal Wedding, with Fred Astaire, A Date with Judy, with friend Elizabeth Taylor, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with Howard Keel. In the late 1950s, her film career slowed, only to be replaced with a busy theater and television career.
As of 2010, Powell lives with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore, in New York City and Connecticut, and is still active in television and theater.
Despite the same last name she is not related to actors William Powell, Dick Powell, or Eleanor Powell.
The only child born to Paul E. Burce (a Wonder Bread employee) and Eileen Baker Burce (a housewife) in Portland, Oregon, Powell began dance lessons at the age of two. Powell was born a brunette, with straight hair. In an attempt to liken her appearance to Shirley Temple, Powell's mother took her to get her first perm the same year she began dance lessons. It wasn't until she starred in Technicolor pictures that she became a blonde.
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Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Simmons was born in Lower Holloway, London, England, to Charles Simmons and his wife, Winifred (Loveland) Simmons. Jean was the youngest of four children with siblings Edna, Harold and Lorna. She began acting at the age of 14. During the war, the Simmons family was evacuated to Winscombe in Somerset. Her father, a physical education teacher (who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow". Returning to London and just enrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, she was spotted by the director Val Guest, who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small roles in several other films followed including the high profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel Pascal. Pascal saw potential in Simmons and in 1945 he signed her to a seven year contract. Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. It was the experience of working on Great Expectations that caused her to pursue an acting career more seriously:
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Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.
A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived. Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted. Although Kern detested jazz arrangements of his songs, many have been adopted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes.
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Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell.
After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951).
Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979).
Blondell was born to a vaudeville family in New York City. Her father, known as Eddie Joan Blondell, Jr., was born in Indiana in 1866 to French parents, and was a vaudeville comedian and one of the original Katzenjammer Kids. Blondell's mother was Kathryn ("Katie") Cain, born April 13, 1884, in Brooklyn of Irish American parents. Her younger sister, Gloria, also an actress, was briefly married to film producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli (the future producer of the James Bond film series) and bears a strong resemblance to her older sister, Joan. Blondell also had a brother, the namesake of her father and grandfather. Her cradle was a property trunk as her parents moved from place to place and she made her first appearance on stage at the age of four months when she was carried on in a cradle as the daughter of Peggy Astaire in The Greatest Love.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
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Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress.
Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act, before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as "Billie Dawn" led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared regularly in film during the 1950s. She was noted for her performance on Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 film.
In 1952, Holliday was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims that she was associated with communism. Although not blacklisted from films, she was blacklisted from radio and television for almost three years.
Born Judith Tuvim ("Tuvim" approximates the Yiddish word [yontoyvim] for "holidays") in New York City, she was the only child of Abe and Helen Tuvim, who were of Russian Jewish descent. She grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York and graduated from Julia Richman High School. Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre run by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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June Allyson
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments.
Allyson was born Eleanor Geisman, nicknamed "Ella," in The Bronx, New York City. She was the daughter of Clara (née Provost) and Robert Geisman. She had a brother, Henry, who was two years older. She claimed to be raised as a Roman Catholic[citation needed] but there is discrepancy relating to her early life as her studio biography was often the source of the confusion. Her paternal grandparents, Harry Geisman and Anna Hafner, were immigrants from Germany, although Allyson claimed her last name was originally "Van Geisman", and was of Dutch origin. Studio biographies listed her as "Jan Allyson" born to French-English parents. On her death her daughter said Allyson was born "Eleanor Geisman to a French mother and Dutch father."
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Kay Kendall
Kay Kendall (21 May 1927 – 6 September 1959) was an English actress.
Kendall began her film career in the musical film London Town (1946). Though the film was a financial failure, Kendall continued to work regularly until her appearance in the comedy film Genevieve (1953) brought her widespread recognition. Most prolific in British films, Kendall also achieved some popularity with American audiences, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in the musical-comedy film Les Girls (1957).
She began a romantic relationship with actor Rex Harrison after they appeared together in the comedy film The Constant Husband (1955), and they were married in 1957. Harrison learned from Kendall's doctor that she had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia, a fact that was kept from Kendall, who believed she was suffering from an iron deficiency. The actor cared for Kendall until her death at age 32.
“As they say about crime victims, Kay Kendall was in the wrong place at the wrong time", wrote Rhoda Koenig, a critic, in The Independent in 2006. "In her case, the crime was a waste of talent. One of the most delightful of British actresses .... [F]ew of her films gave her a chance to shine. A natural screwball heroine, Kendall was born too late for the Thirties comedies in which she would have been the equal of the scatty but scintillating Carole Lombard or Claudette Colbert, and too soon for the naughtiness and absurdity of the sixties .... Kendall was beautiful and funny. She was a true comedian, unafraid to compromise her ladylike appearance with pratfalls, pop eyes ,and comic drunk scenes. Kendall could get away with such antics without looking vulgar.”[1]
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series.
Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.
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Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), professionally recognized as Marilyn Monroe, was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention to her. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to a leading role in Niagara (1953), a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
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Marty Ingels
Marty Ingels (born March 9, 1936) is an actor, comedian, theatrical agent, and, by many, best known as the voice of many cartoon characters and commercials. Born Martin Ingerman in Brooklyn, New York, he is the son of Jacob and Minnie (née: Crown) Ingerman.
His voice-overs and commercials include those for Paul Masson wines, with his uniquely raspy voice. He played AutoCat in the Autocat and Motormouse cartoons featured first on The Cattanooga Cats and then in a series of their own, and was Beegle Beagle in The Great Grape Ape Show. His latest role was in Pac-Man (1982) as the title character. He previously acted in motion pictures and short-lived television series, such as the sitcom I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962–1963) with John Astin, which lasted one season of 32 episodes.
Ingels' acting career dates back to the early '60s and programs such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, on which he had a recurring role as an Army buddy of Rob Petrie, and has continued as recently as a 2010 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 1960, he appeared twice as himself in NBC's short-lived crime drama Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier and set on the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (
/ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for singers and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Rodgers.
Hammerstein was born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein in New York City, the son of Alice (née Nimmo) and William Hammerstein. His grandfather was German-born Jewish theater impresario Oscar Hammerstein I, and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents. Hammerstein was raised an Episcopalian.[citation needed]
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Peter Lawford
Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen (7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984), better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.
He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.
Born in London in 1923, he was the only child of Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford KBE (1865-1953) and May Aylen (née May Sommerville Bunny, 1883-1972). At the time of Lawford's birth, however, his mother was married to her second husband, Dr. Capt. Ernest Vaughn Aylen, one of Sir Sidney's officers, while his father was married to the former Muriel Williams. After Peter's birth, his mother confessed to Aylen that the child was not his, a revelation that resulted in a double divorce. Sir Sydney and May Aylen then wed in September 1924, after their divorces were finalized and when their son was one year old.
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Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame. She won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based on the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred).
Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women, as well as for being one of the few actresses of her time who regularly played professional women, such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol, not being famous for her looks.
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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934), known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well known for her beliefs in New Age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1983 for her role in Terms of Endearment. Her younger brother is Warren Beatty.
Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; MacLaine's grandparents were also teachers.The family was devoutly Baptist. Her uncle (her mother's brother-in-law) was A.A. MacLeod, a Communist member of the Ontario legislature in the 1940s.
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Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress.
After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s, the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).
Hayward married and lived in Georgia and following her Oscar-winning performance, her film appearances became infrequent, although she continued acting in film and television until 1972. She died in 1975 of brain cancer.
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Van Johnson
Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.
Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness (that) made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the war years with such films as 30 Seconds over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny. Johnson made occasional World War II movies through the end of the 1960s, and he played a military officer in one of his final feature films, in 1992. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age."
Johnson was born Charles Van Dell Johnson in Newport, Rhode Island; the only child of Loretta (née Snyder), a homemaker, and Charles E. Johnson, a plumber and later real-estate salesman. His father was born in Sweden and came to the United States as a young child), and his mother had German-American Pennsylvania Dutch ethnicity. His mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a child; Johnson's relationship with his father was chilly.
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Allyson, June Filmography
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009)
- Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane (2007)
- A Life in Words and Music (2007)
- The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)
- The Masters Behind the Musicals (2004)
- A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2001)
- These Old Broads (2001)
- Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001)
- Inside the Dream Factory (1995)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994)
- That's Entertainment! III Behind the Screen (1994)
- Burt Reynolds' Conversation With (1991)
- The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards (1991)
- America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989)
- Wilfrid's Special Christmas (1989)
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
- The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1986)
- The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986)
- That's Dancing! (1985)
- The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Gene Kelly (1985)
- Night of 100 Stars (1982)
- The Kid with the Broken Halo (1982)
- Three on a Date (1978)
- Blackout (1978)
- Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978)
- An All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1977)
- Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
- They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
- See the Man Run (1971)
- Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
- A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
- The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959)
- The 30th Annual Academy Awards (1958)
- Interlude (1957)
- My Man Godfrey (1957)
- General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars (1956)
- The Opposite Sex (1956)
- You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
- Strategic Air Command (1955)
- The McConnell Story (1955)
- The Shrike (1955)
- The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
- Woman's World (1954)
- Executive Suite (1954)
- Battle Circus (1953)
- Remains to Be Seen (1953)
- The Girl in White (1952)
- Too Young to Kiss (1951)
- The 22th Annual Academy Awards (1950)
- The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
- Right Cross (1950)
- Little Women (1949)
- The Stratton Story (1949)
- The Three Musketeers (1948)
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
- Words and Music (1948)
- High Barbaree (1947)
- Good News (1947)
- The Secret Heart (1946)
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
- Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
- Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945)
- The Birth of a Star (1944)
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
- Meet the People (1944)
- Music for Millions (1944)
- Best Foot Forward (1943)
- Girl Crazy (1943)
- Thousands Cheer (1943)
- All Girl Revue (1940)
- Rollin' in Rhythm (1939)
- The Prisoner of Swing (1938)
- The Knight Is Young (1938)
- Sing for Sweetie (1938)
- Ups and Downs (1937)
- Dime a Dance (1937)
- Dates and Nuts (1937)
- Pixilated (1937)
- Swing for Sale (1937)
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June Allyson "When" The Opposite Sex
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Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". The movie is a musical version of "The Women".
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Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". The movie is a musical version of "The Women".
What's my Line? June Allyson
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- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
What's my Line? June Allyson
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June Allyson--Lost Interview
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- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This show was based in New Orleans
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Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This show was based in New Orleans
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 3222
- author: allen stewart
June Allyson/Peter Lawford - The Varsity Drag
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- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate college gym number.
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From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate college gym number.
- published: 22 Jan 2010
- views: 30830
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Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
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- Duration: 21:11
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
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A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 1048
- author: Micolenia
Ginger Rogers - June Allyson's about Ginger
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- Duration: 1:42
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conversation With... 63 mins - 1991 Burt Reynolds interviews Ginger Rogers, June Allyson, Jane Powell and Esther Williams
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Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conversation With... 63 mins - 1991 Burt Reynolds interviews Ginger Rogers, June Allyson, Jane Powell and Esther Williams
- published: 25 May 2012
- views: 2016
- author: Ginger Peachy
What's my Line? June Allyson
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
What's my Line? June Allyson
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June Allyson - Leave It to Jane, Cleopatterer (from the movie Till The Clouds Roll By, 1946)
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- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959--1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959--1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 438
- author: John1948SevenD
June Allyson Remembered 1917-2006
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- Duration: 1:54
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Tribute to June Allyson 1917-2006.
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June Allson - Til The Clouds Go By
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the public domain due to MGM failing to renew copyright in the early-1970s. You can easily find this to be true by doing a google search for "Till the Clouds Roll public domain" This movie is listed on several reputable websites as being public. *** June Allyson and the MGM chorus sing "Leave it To Jane" ... then "Cleopatterer". How could MGM let this movie fall into the public domain is beyond me.
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*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the public domain due to MGM failing to renew copyright in the early-1970s. You can easily find this to be true by doing a google search for "Till the Clouds Roll public domain" This movie is listed on several reputable websites as being public. *** June Allyson and the MGM chorus sing "Leave it To Jane" ... then "Cleopatterer". How could MGM let this movie fall into the public domain is beyond me.
- published: 13 Sep 2008
- views: 15673
- author: mkrobinson95
June Allyson on Judy Garland (Word Of Mouth)
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on TCM!
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From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on TCM!
- published: 31 Dec 2010
- views: 10949
- author: Ute Loeffler
Movie Legends - June Allyson
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- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door.
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Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door.
- published: 18 Sep 2007
- views: 12520
- author: basilnelson
The Doodlin' Song June Allyson
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June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963
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June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1996
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What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
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What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
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Little Women (1949) Trailer (June Allyson, Peter Lawford and Margaret O'Brien)
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www.trailerobsessed.com Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s
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www.trailerobsessed.com Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s
- published: 15 Nov 2012
- views: 1227
- author: agelesstrailers
Judy and June Allyson
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- Duration: 5:45
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It might be loud...I'm just saying. "Tea for Two" segment from "The Judy Garland Show". Judy and June were friends since their MGM days. They talk about how MGM used to threaten Judy by saying they would replace her with June if she ever screwed up.
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****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It might be loud...I'm just saying. "Tea for Two" segment from "The Judy Garland Show". Judy and June were friends since their MGM days. They talk about how MGM used to threaten Judy by saying they would replace her with June if she ever screwed up.
- published: 06 Dec 2009
- views: 11617
- author: Jbellaire
Judy & June Allyson singing "Cleopaterer" outtake from TJGS
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
****I didn't want to upload this because of how terrible it looked but whatever, lol. Just watching the two of them together makes me smile because of how much goofing off they did, lol.
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****I didn't want to upload this because of how terrible it looked but whatever, lol. Just watching the two of them together makes me smile because of how much goofing off they did, lol.
- published: 07 Dec 2009
- views: 6894
- author: Jbellaire
1989 - Depend Undergarments - 2 Level of Protection
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- Duration: 0:31
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
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Happy Birthday June Allyson!!!
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
For a lovely lady...Thank you for your inspiration, and sunny disposition. I'll never forget these words: "Love is key, Love is important, Love is EVERYTHING."
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For a lovely lady...Thank you for your inspiration, and sunny disposition. I'll never forget these words: "Love is key, Love is important, Love is EVERYTHING."
- published: 07 Oct 2012
- views: 221
- author: JuneAllysonFan
Jack Lemmon June Allyson You Can't Run Away From It
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- Duration: 11:01
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
It's a crime that as long as I've been a fan of Jack's this film has (pardon the pun) managed to run away from me. I'm so curious to see it as its the remake of It Happened One Night (which is available practically everywhere) Sure it was a flop, but any film with Jack Lemmon is worth seeing. It's also a musicallized version of the original and here are the songs I could find available for purchase on amazon. 1. Howdy Friends and Neighbors 2. Thumbin' a Ride 3. Temporarily Hearing these songs only makes me want to watch it all the more! There's not even a trailer for it anywhere.
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It's a crime that as long as I've been a fan of Jack's this film has (pardon the pun) managed to run away from me. I'm so curious to see it as its the remake of It Happened One Night (which is available practically everywhere) Sure it was a flop, but any film with Jack Lemmon is worth seeing. It's also a musicallized version of the original and here are the songs I could find available for purchase on amazon. 1. Howdy Friends and Neighbors 2. Thumbin' a Ride 3. Temporarily Hearing these songs only makes me want to watch it all the more! There's not even a trailer for it anywhere.
- published: 29 May 2011
- views: 1828
- author: restoredeanna
Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood 1/3, Ginger Rogers, Hepburn, Bronson
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- Duration: 8:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
1987 - Barbara Eden, Debbie Allen, June Allyson, Bea Arthur, Edward Asner,Lucille Ball,Gene Barry,Drew Barrymore,Shari Belafonte,Sandahl Bergman,Tom Bosley,Morgan Brittany,Charles Bronson,Gregg Burge,Carol Burnett,Sid Caesar,Lynda Carter,Cyd Charisse,James Coburn,Dabney Coleman,Mike Connors,Bert...
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1987 - Barbara Eden, Debbie Allen, June Allyson, Bea Arthur, Edward Asner,Lucille Ball,Gene Barry,Drew Barrymore,Shari Belafonte,Sandahl Bergman,Tom Bosley,Morgan Brittany,Charles Bronson,Gregg Burge,Carol Burnett,Sid Caesar,Lynda Carter,Cyd Charisse,James Coburn,Dabney Coleman,Mike Connors,Bert...
- published: 10 Feb 2010
- views: 40923
- author: jazzfm1
June Allyson in 'The Stratton Story' 1949 film
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 09 Jul 2012
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If you want to know more about 'June Allyson' then visit our sexy blog - www.sexybeautifulworld.com
- published: 17 Feb 2011
- views: 1130
- author: SexyBeautifulWorld
A Salue to June Allyson
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
A loving tribute to a fine actress
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Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
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- Duration: 21:11
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
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A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 1048
- author: Micolenia
Screen Director's Playhouse - Music For Millions (June Allyson, Henry Coster)
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- Duration: 29:47
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director's Guild Assignment, Screen Director's Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director's Playhouse. Tonight's Broadcast "Music For Millions" Starring: June Allyson, Henry Coster Original Air Date: April 10, 1949 Episode Number: 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director's Guild Assignment, Screen Director's Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director's Playhouse. Tonight's Broadcast "Music For Millions" Starring: June Allyson, Henry Coster Original Air Date: April 10, 1949 Episode Number: 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 51
- author: TonightOnTheRadio
Old Gold Comedy Theater - Tom, Dick And Harry (June Allyson, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore)
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- Duration: 30:16
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC anthology series that aired for the single 1944-1945 season. It was hosted by comedy star Harold Lloyd, of silent film fame, and featuring some of the biggest names from film and radio. The series was intended as a lighter version of The Lux Radio Theater, featuring half hour shows that were cut-down versions of successful comedy films from the time period. Despite Mr. Lloyd's best efforts, the presence of big-name movie and radio stars and the selection of successful films for scripting, the series did not last, perhaps due to the half-hour format. However, in today's time period they are quiet entertaining. It was also known as, The Old Gold Comedy Theater, Harold Lloyd Comedy Theater and The Comedy Theater Tonight's Comedy.... "Tom, Dick And Harry Starring..... June Allyson, Bill Williams, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore Original Air Date: June 10, 1945 Episode Number: 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC anthology series that aired for the single 1944-1945 season. It was hosted by comedy star Harold Lloyd, of silent film fame, and featuring some of the biggest names from film and radio. The series was intended as a lighter version of The Lux Radio Theater, featuring half hour shows that were cut-down versions of successful comedy films from the time period. Despite Mr. Lloyd's best efforts, the presence of big-name movie and radio stars and the selection of successful films for scripting, the series did not last, perhaps due to the half-hour format. However, in today's time period they are quiet entertaining. It was also known as, The Old Gold Comedy Theater, Harold Lloyd Comedy Theater and The Comedy Theater Tonight's Comedy.... "Tom, Dick And Harry Starring..... June Allyson, Bill Williams, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore Original Air Date: June 10, 1945 Episode Number: 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 32
- author: TonightOnTheRadio
![mujercitas (1949)--elizabeth taylor, june allyson, peter lawford, margaret[spanish]].avi](http://web.archive.org./web/20130123145446im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mPc_2ZELsh0/default.jpg "mujercitas (1949)--elizabeth taylor, june allyson, peter lawford, margaret[spanish]].avi")
mujercitas (1949)--elizabeth taylor, june allyson, peter lawford, margaret[spanish]].avi
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- Duration: 116:41
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
UN CLASICO ,QUE ME TRAE NOSTALGIA DE TIEMPOS PASADOS...NAVIDAES INOLVIDABLES
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UN CLASICO ,QUE ME TRAE NOSTALGIA DE TIEMPOS PASADOS...NAVIDAES INOLVIDABLES
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 1804
- author: Sofia Ortega
Ginger Rogers Tender Shoot.VOB
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- Duration: 23:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Ginger Rogers Guests on June Allyson's Show. Check out my book about Ginger's life and movies from the perspective of an ardent fan. www.viviantalksgingerrogers.blogspot.com
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Ginger Rogers Guests on June Allyson's Show. Check out my book about Ginger's life and movies from the perspective of an ardent fan. www.viviantalksgingerrogers.blogspot.com
- published: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 419
- author: keleigh97
Till the Clouds Roll By
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- Duration: 135:31
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists...June Allyson.
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Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists...June Allyson.
- published: 17 May 2010
- views: 24709
- author: drelbcom
SeeTheManRun
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- Duration: 72:42
- Updated: 30 Jun 2012
First broadcast on December 11, 1971. Directed by Corey Allen Written by Mann Rubin Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson, Charles Cioffi, Antoinette Bower, Michael Bell Ross Elliot John Lipton John Goddard
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First broadcast on December 11, 1971. Directed by Corey Allen Written by Mann Rubin Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson, Charles Cioffi, Antoinette Bower, Michael Bell Ross Elliot John Lipton John Goddard
- published: 09 Oct 2011
- views: 908
- author: amaryllistwo
So Dim the Light
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- Duration: 25:19
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
First Broadcast February 1, 1960 Directed by Don Taylor Written by Stirling Silliphant Starring June Allyson, Robert Culp, King Calder, Lawrence ( Larry) Dobkin, Dirk London ( Ray Boyle), Mary Patton, Tracy Olsen and Denny Niles Narrator Armand (Army) Archer Cameo Appearance by Robert Taylor
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First Broadcast February 1, 1960 Directed by Don Taylor Written by Stirling Silliphant Starring June Allyson, Robert Culp, King Calder, Lawrence ( Larry) Dobkin, Dirk London ( Ray Boyle), Mary Patton, Tracy Olsen and Denny Niles Narrator Armand (Army) Archer Cameo Appearance by Robert Taylor
- published: 07 Apr 2012
- views: 627
- author: amaryllistwo
Simon & Simon - The Last Time I Saw Michael
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- Duration: 47:08
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Airdate: December 9, 1982. (Season 2, Episode 08). AJ and Rick suspect larceny when a wealthy widow claims that her deceased husband-- who disappeared at sea four years earlier-- has recently visited asking for money. Guest stars: June Allyson..............................Margaret Wells Robert Sterling...........................Michael Wells / Arthur Bristol Don Gordon...............................Knapp Jack Lucarelli.............................Earl Hickman Matthew Tobin............................Siggy
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Airdate: December 9, 1982. (Season 2, Episode 08). AJ and Rick suspect larceny when a wealthy widow claims that her deceased husband-- who disappeared at sea four years earlier-- has recently visited asking for money. Guest stars: June Allyson..............................Margaret Wells Robert Sterling...........................Michael Wells / Arthur Bristol Don Gordon...............................Knapp Jack Lucarelli.............................Earl Hickman Matthew Tobin............................Siggy
- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 2439
- author: 2604VeniceCanals
"ALL-STAR PARTY" FOR 'DUTCH' REAGAN (COMPLETE), 1985
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- Duration: 46:16
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Frank Sinatra, Eydie & Steve, and Dean Martin sing. Ben Vereen & Emmanuel Lewis do a song and dance number. THE BEGINNING OF THIS SHOW HAS STATIC BUT AFTER 2:18 almost perfect. I probably got this off tape just in time, before the whole tape starts doing that! Here is a list of the stars &/or celebrities that I spotted during this show, AS THEY APPEAR. Can you identify those where I have blanks? Let me know and I'll add them. Thanks. Also, would be fun to hear from anyone who was in The International Children's Choir! For those who don't know, if you click on the number to the left of performer below, YT will take you right to that spot. I didn't know this when I first got on YT. I thought it just told you where they were and you had to go back and forth with your mouse looking for that number!!! 00:07 NANCY REAGAN, of course. 00:07 Maureen Reagan (& her husband Dennis Revell-shown later) - President Reagan's daughter 00:11 Rosey Greer 00:12 Betty White 00:16 Michelle Lee 00:16 Charlton Huston 00:16 John Ritter 00:22 Monty Hall - Host 00:29 Frank Sinatra - Host (honoree of All Star Party in 1983) 01:22 Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence 01:30 Emmanuel Lewis 01:31 Robert Mitchum 01:35 Dean Martin 01:42 Burt Reynolds (honoree of All Star Party in 1981) & wife Loni Anderson 01:46 Vince Scully 01:52 Ben Vereen 01:55 Nelson Riddle Orchestra, conducted by Nick Parito. 02:38 Dionne Warwick 02:39 Phyllis Diller 03:25 Brian Keith 03:54 Glenn Ford 04:01 Fred MacMurray & June Haver 04:07 ...
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Frank Sinatra, Eydie & Steve, and Dean Martin sing. Ben Vereen & Emmanuel Lewis do a song and dance number. THE BEGINNING OF THIS SHOW HAS STATIC BUT AFTER 2:18 almost perfect. I probably got this off tape just in time, before the whole tape starts doing that! Here is a list of the stars &/or celebrities that I spotted during this show, AS THEY APPEAR. Can you identify those where I have blanks? Let me know and I'll add them. Thanks. Also, would be fun to hear from anyone who was in The International Children's Choir! For those who don't know, if you click on the number to the left of performer below, YT will take you right to that spot. I didn't know this when I first got on YT. I thought it just told you where they were and you had to go back and forth with your mouse looking for that number!!! 00:07 NANCY REAGAN, of course. 00:07 Maureen Reagan (& her husband Dennis Revell-shown later) - President Reagan's daughter 00:11 Rosey Greer 00:12 Betty White 00:16 Michelle Lee 00:16 Charlton Huston 00:16 John Ritter 00:22 Monty Hall - Host 00:29 Frank Sinatra - Host (honoree of All Star Party in 1983) 01:22 Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence 01:30 Emmanuel Lewis 01:31 Robert Mitchum 01:35 Dean Martin 01:42 Burt Reynolds (honoree of All Star Party in 1981) & wife Loni Anderson 01:46 Vince Scully 01:52 Ben Vereen 01:55 Nelson Riddle Orchestra, conducted by Nick Parito. 02:38 Dionne Warwick 02:39 Phyllis Diller 03:25 Brian Keith 03:54 Glenn Ford 04:01 Fred MacMurray & June Haver 04:07 ...
- published: 22 Oct 2012
- views: 3956
- author: westlinngirl
Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) by Richard Whorf
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- Duration: 135:09
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
bjazz.unblog.fr www.datday.com Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) a MGM movie (135min). Directors: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney. Public domain. Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'. Starring June Allyson, Robert Walker (as Jerome Kern), Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansburry... Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is an american composer of successful Broadway musicals (Oh, Boy!, Show Boat, Music in the Air, Roberta, Very Warm for May ...), and such great standard songs like : All the Things You Are, A Fine Romance, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Dearly Beloved, I'm Old Fashioned, I Won't Dance, Long Ago (and Far Away), Look for the Silver Lining, Make Believe, Ol' Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Song Is You, The Way You Look Tonight, They Didn't Believe Me, Who Cares?, Why Was I Born?, Yesterdays...
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bjazz.unblog.fr www.datday.com Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) a MGM movie (135min). Directors: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney. Public domain. Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'. Starring June Allyson, Robert Walker (as Jerome Kern), Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansburry... Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is an american composer of successful Broadway musicals (Oh, Boy!, Show Boat, Music in the Air, Roberta, Very Warm for May ...), and such great standard songs like : All the Things You Are, A Fine Romance, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Dearly Beloved, I'm Old Fashioned, I Won't Dance, Long Ago (and Far Away), Look for the Silver Lining, Make Believe, Ol' Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Song Is You, The Way You Look Tonight, They Didn't Believe Me, Who Cares?, Why Was I Born?, Yesterdays...
- published: 01 May 2011
- views: 23559
- author: buggzugg
Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, WC Fields, Rodgers & Hart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
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- Duration: 60:45
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 -- December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979). Penny Arcade only lasted three weeks, but Al Jolson saw it and bought the rights to the play for $20000. He then sold the rights to Warner Brothers with the proviso that Blondell and Cagney be cast in the film version. Placed under contract by Warners, she moved to Hollywood where studio boss Jack Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes", but Blondell refused. She began to appear in short subjects, and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as Sinners' Holiday (1930) -- the film version of Penny ...
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Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 -- December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979). Penny Arcade only lasted three weeks, but Al Jolson saw it and bought the rights to the play for $20000. He then sold the rights to Warner Brothers with the proviso that Blondell and Cagney be cast in the film version. Placed under contract by Warners, she moved to Hollywood where studio boss Jack Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes", but Blondell refused. She began to appear in short subjects, and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as Sinners' Holiday (1930) -- the film version of Penny ...
- published: 11 Nov 2012
- views: 1729
- author: theradioarchive
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :)
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- Duration: 93:02
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :) My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on "1101 Park Avenue", a short story by Eric Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. The film stars William Powell and Carole Lombard. The film was remade in 1957 with June Allyson and David Niven in the starring roles. In 1999, the original version of My Man Godfrey was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. PLOT During the Great Depression, Godfrey "Smith" (William Powell) is living alongside other men down on their luck at the city dump. One night, spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock (Gail Patrick) offers him five dollars to be her "forgotten man" for a scavenger hunt. Annoyed, he advances on her, causing her to retreat and fall on a pile of ashes. She leaves in a fury, much to the glee of her younger sister, Irene (Carole Lombard). After talking with her, Godfrey finds her to be kind, if a bit scatter-brained. He offers to go with Irene to help her beat Cornelia. In the ballroom of the Waldorf-Ritz Hotel, Irene's long-suffering businessman father, Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette), waits resignedly as his ditsy wife, Angelica (Alice Brady ...
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My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :) My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on "1101 Park Avenue", a short story by Eric Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. The film stars William Powell and Carole Lombard. The film was remade in 1957 with June Allyson and David Niven in the starring roles. In 1999, the original version of My Man Godfrey was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. PLOT During the Great Depression, Godfrey "Smith" (William Powell) is living alongside other men down on their luck at the city dump. One night, spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock (Gail Patrick) offers him five dollars to be her "forgotten man" for a scavenger hunt. Annoyed, he advances on her, causing her to retreat and fall on a pile of ashes. She leaves in a fury, much to the glee of her younger sister, Irene (Carole Lombard). After talking with her, Godfrey finds her to be kind, if a bit scatter-brained. He offers to go with Irene to help her beat Cornelia. In the ballroom of the Waldorf-Ritz Hotel, Irene's long-suffering businessman father, Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette), waits resignedly as his ditsy wife, Angelica (Alice Brady ...
- published: 12 Jan 2013
- views: 36
- author: GreenLibraryFilms
Hollywood Without Makeup (1963)
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- Duration: 50:15
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Hosted by Ken Murray with a Special appearance by Kirk Douglas. Features footage of: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Mary Astor, Lew Ayres, Max Baer, Lucille Ball, Richard Barthelmess, Rex Bell,...
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A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Hosted by Ken Murray with a Special appearance by Kirk Douglas. Features footage of: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Mary Astor, Lew Ayres, Max Baer, Lucille Ball, Richard Barthelmess, Rex Bell,...
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 506
- author: TrailerBrasil
Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow In June - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2006
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- Duration: 49:31
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Tan Dun's powerful score for cellist and four percussionists commemorates the 1989 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The title refers to the 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Ching, in which a young woman, Dou Eh, is executed for crimes she did not commit. Even nature cries out for Dou Eh's innocence: her blood does not fall to earth, but flies upward, and a heavy snow falls in June. Likewise Tan Dun's music sings of pity and purity, beauty and darkness. As choreographed by Allyson Green, this striking dance/theatre work is a lament for victims everywhere. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [12/2006] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 12084]
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Tan Dun's powerful score for cellist and four percussionists commemorates the 1989 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The title refers to the 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Ching, in which a young woman, Dou Eh, is executed for crimes she did not commit. Even nature cries out for Dou Eh's innocence: her blood does not fall to earth, but flies upward, and a heavy snow falls in June. Likewise Tan Dun's music sings of pity and purity, beauty and darkness. As choreographed by Allyson Green, this striking dance/theatre work is a lament for victims everywhere. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [12/2006] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 12084]
- published: 17 Jan 2008
- views: 4999
- author: UCtelevision
La pluie qui chante (vo) - till the clouds roll by (film complet)
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- Duration: 135:09
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Film musical de 1946 (Vincente Minelli et Richard Whorf) avec Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse : la biographie en musique du grand compositeur Jerome Kern (comédies musicales et musiques de film). Musical Biopic of Jerome Kern. Domaine Public
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Film musical de 1946 (Vincente Minelli et Richard Whorf) avec Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse : la biographie en musique du grand compositeur Jerome Kern (comédies musicales et musiques de film). Musical Biopic of Jerome Kern. Domaine Public
- published: 18 Jan 2013
- views: 14
- author: Isa73CC
Women Into Leadership II: Allyson Reed Presentation - March 2010
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- Duration: 22:07
- Updated: 23 Jun 2010
Women Into Leadership II - Journey to the Boardroom: 'Top tips for getting onto Boards - Allyson Reed, Technology Strategy Board' - March 2010 @ The Rosebowl, Leeds
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Women Into Leadership II - Journey to the Boardroom: 'Top tips for getting onto Boards - Allyson Reed, Technology Strategy Board' - March 2010 @ The Rosebowl, Leeds
- published: 07 Jun 2010
- views: 140
- author: LeedsMetUni
2012-06-12 Coaching call with Dan Frio and Allyson Lewis
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- Duration: 59:05
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
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2010-2011 Girls Soccer: Punahou vs. Kamehameha
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- Duration: 93:31
- Updated: 13 Oct 2011
DATE: January 21, 2011 PUNAHOU: Lahaina Zoller, Allyson Holtz, Dempsey Banks, Jensen Toner, Kendra Trifonovitch, Danielle Stollar, Lauren Stollar, Anu Kahele-Manners, Kaylin Okuma KAMEHAMEHA: Caprice Dydasco, Gabriella Yates, Kapua Entendencia ANNOUNCERS: Ian Earle, Scott Metcalf HALFTIME INTERVIEW: Michele Nagamine
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DATE: January 21, 2011 PUNAHOU: Lahaina Zoller, Allyson Holtz, Dempsey Banks, Jensen Toner, Kendra Trifonovitch, Danielle Stollar, Lauren Stollar, Anu Kahele-Manners, Kaylin Okuma KAMEHAMEHA: Caprice Dydasco, Gabriella Yates, Kapua Entendencia ANNOUNCERS: Ian Earle, Scott Metcalf HALFTIME INTERVIEW: Michele Nagamine
- published: 30 Jun 2011
- views: 907
- author: punavision
SYS-CON.tv @ 10th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Power Panel at Times Square Studio
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- Duration: 34:48
- Updated: 07 Aug 2012
In this Cloud Expo Power Panel moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan in our Times Square studio, Ash Massoudi, CEO at NextAxiom Technology; Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International; Allyson Klein, Director of Leadership Marketing at Intel and Technical Advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance; and Andy Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy at Rackspace Hosting discuss "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012."
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In this Cloud Expo Power Panel moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan in our Times Square studio, Ash Massoudi, CEO at NextAxiom Technology; Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International; Allyson Klein, Director of Leadership Marketing at Intel and Technical Advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance; and Andy Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy at Rackspace Hosting discuss "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012."
- published: 03 Aug 2012
- views: 44
- author: SYSCONTV
Science & U!: Show #1
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- Duration: 29:23
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
This episode of "Science & U!" will take a look at the role of women and science, whether New York City will go under water when the next big hurricane hits, cutting edge technology and surgery for your pets, a floating urban barge for growing plants and vegetables hydroponically and whether Pluto gets to be a planet again! (Premiered 6/28/11). Guest List Dr. Jill Bargonetti Professor of Biological Sciences, Hunter College Dr. Allyson Berent Director of Interventional Endoscopy Services, Animal Medical Center Angelena Cannon Student, Girls Prep Lower East Side Nicholas Coch Professor of Earth & Environmental Science, Queens College, CUNY Gary Conte Warning Coordination Meteorolgist, National Weather Service (NOAA) Ernabel Demillo Host, Science & U! Julie Des Jardin Professor of Modern American History, Gender & American Women, Baruch College, CUN Dr. Anthony J. Fischetti Department Head of Diagnostic Imaging, Animal Medical Center Michael Gilliam Host, Science & U! Grant Greenberg Host, Science & U! Melissa Guevara Intern, Science Barge Gwen Hill Director of Education, Science Barge Prof. Michio Kaku Theoretical Physics Professor, The City College/CUNY Barry Mitchell Producer, CUNY TV Allyson Paul Kofi's Owner Marlene Peralta Presentadora, Desde la Calle/Independent Sources Dr. Arlie Petters Doctor, Duke University Carol Anne Riddell Host, Science & U! Alys Smith Mimi's Owner Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Director, Hayden Planetatium, The American Museum of Natural History Bob ...
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This episode of "Science & U!" will take a look at the role of women and science, whether New York City will go under water when the next big hurricane hits, cutting edge technology and surgery for your pets, a floating urban barge for growing plants and vegetables hydroponically and whether Pluto gets to be a planet again! (Premiered 6/28/11). Guest List Dr. Jill Bargonetti Professor of Biological Sciences, Hunter College Dr. Allyson Berent Director of Interventional Endoscopy Services, Animal Medical Center Angelena Cannon Student, Girls Prep Lower East Side Nicholas Coch Professor of Earth & Environmental Science, Queens College, CUNY Gary Conte Warning Coordination Meteorolgist, National Weather Service (NOAA) Ernabel Demillo Host, Science & U! Julie Des Jardin Professor of Modern American History, Gender & American Women, Baruch College, CUN Dr. Anthony J. Fischetti Department Head of Diagnostic Imaging, Animal Medical Center Michael Gilliam Host, Science & U! Grant Greenberg Host, Science & U! Melissa Guevara Intern, Science Barge Gwen Hill Director of Education, Science Barge Prof. Michio Kaku Theoretical Physics Professor, The City College/CUNY Barry Mitchell Producer, CUNY TV Allyson Paul Kofi's Owner Marlene Peralta Presentadora, Desde la Calle/Independent Sources Dr. Arlie Petters Doctor, Duke University Carol Anne Riddell Host, Science & U! Alys Smith Mimi's Owner Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Director, Hayden Planetatium, The American Museum of Natural History Bob ...
- published: 29 Jun 2011
- views: 1129
- author: cunytv75
pH Balanced in THE ARENA (6/22/12)
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- Duration: 21:31
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
pH Balanced performs in the Arena. Members: Brittany Herman, Jessica Kent, Tracie Mauk, Rachael Osborn, Allyson Schneiderwind www.backline.com
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pH Balanced performs in the Arena. Members: Brittany Herman, Jessica Kent, Tracie Mauk, Rachael Osborn, Allyson Schneiderwind www.backline.com
- published: 24 Jun 2012
- views: 157
- author: buddhabubba
F13: Mother's Day Pt1
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- Duration: 23:52
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
This is the first part of the film adaptation of my Camp Crystal Lake novel, Mother's Day. Starring Mali MacConnel, Ben Santos, Derek Jimenz, Nicole Lillie, Allyson Smith, Cory Lucas,Dave Conte, Steve LoVerme, and Paul Bradicch. Directed by Cory Stevens...
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This is the first part of the film adaptation of my Camp Crystal Lake novel, Mother's Day. Starring Mali MacConnel, Ben Santos, Derek Jimenz, Nicole Lillie, Allyson Smith, Cory Lucas,Dave Conte, Steve LoVerme, and Paul Bradicch. Directed by Cory Stevens...
- published: 08 Jun 2011
- views: 678
- author: Eric Morse
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June Allyson--Lost Interview
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This show was based in New Orleans
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Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This show was based in New Orleans
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 3179
- author: allen stewart
June Allyson "When" The Opposite Sex
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- Duration: 2:50
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". The movie is a musical version of "The Women".
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Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". The movie is a musical version of "The Women".
- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 1105
- author: MrShowbizman
What's my Line? June Allyson
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- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
What's my Line? June Allyson
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June Allyson/Peter Lawford - The Varsity Drag
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- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate college gym number.
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From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate college gym number.
- published: 22 Jan 2010
- views: 30549
- author: loafersguy
Ginger Rogers - June Allyson's about Ginger
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- Duration: 1:42
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conversation With... 63 mins - 1991 Burt Reynolds interviews Ginger Rogers, June Allyson, Jane Powell and Esther Williams
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Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conversation With... 63 mins - 1991 Burt Reynolds interviews Ginger Rogers, June Allyson, Jane Powell and Esther Williams
- published: 25 May 2012
- views: 1979
- author: Ginger Peachy
June Allison Harry James
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
June Allison and Harry James from "The Opposite Sex" - 1956
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June Allison and Harry James from "The Opposite Sex" - 1956
- published: 15 Jun 2009
- views: 8832
- author: sillywilly001
Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
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- Duration: 21:11
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
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A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 1001
- author: Micolenia
What's my Line? June Allyson
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
What's my Line? June Allyson
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June Allyson Remembered 1917-2006
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- Duration: 1:54
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
Tribute to June Allyson 1917-2006.
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Judy and June Allyson
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- Duration: 5:45
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It might be loud...I'm just saying. "Tea for Two" segment from "The Judy Garland Show". Judy and June were friends since their MGM days. They talk about how MGM used to threaten Judy by saying they would replace her with June if she ever screwed up.
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****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It might be loud...I'm just saying. "Tea for Two" segment from "The Judy Garland Show". Judy and June were friends since their MGM days. They talk about how MGM used to threaten Judy by saying they would replace her with June if she ever screwed up.
- published: 06 Dec 2009
- views: 11510
- author: Jbellaire
June Allyson on Judy Garland (Word Of Mouth)
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on TCM!
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From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on TCM!
- published: 31 Dec 2010
- views: 10913
- author: Ute Loeffler
Movie Legends - June Allyson
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- Duration: 5:40
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door.
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Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door.
- published: 18 Sep 2007
- views: 12499
- author: basilnelson
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
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- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
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June Allson - Til The Clouds Go By
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the public domain due to MGM failing to renew copyright in the early-1970s. You can easily find this to be true by doing a google search for "Till the Clouds Roll public domain" This movie is listed on several reputable websites as being public. *** June Allyson and the MGM chorus sing "Leave it To Jane" ... then "Cleopatterer". How could MGM let this movie fall into the public domain is beyond me.
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*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the public domain due to MGM failing to renew copyright in the early-1970s. You can easily find this to be true by doing a google search for "Till the Clouds Roll public domain" This movie is listed on several reputable websites as being public. *** June Allyson and the MGM chorus sing "Leave it To Jane" ... then "Cleopatterer". How could MGM let this movie fall into the public domain is beyond me.
- published: 13 Sep 2008
- views: 15635
- author: mkrobinson95
The Doodlin' Song June Allyson
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963
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June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1947
- author: affairwiththepast
"In a Little Spanish Town" - Thousands Cheer (HD Print)
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- Duration: 3:10
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Miss ''Frozen Face'' Virginia O'Brien singing along with the beautiful and very young June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven. This is one of the very early film of both June and Gloria and both of them are looking awesomely sweet! Isn't it the last part of the song is so much cute and funny? Film: Thousands Cheer, 1943 "In a Little Spanish Town" (1926) Music by Mabel Wayne Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young Played by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra and sung Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson and Virginia O'Brien "Rock a Bye Baby" (1886) Music and Lyrics by Effie I. Canning Sung by Virginia O'Brien in the "In a Little Spanish Town" number Starring: Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor, John Boles, Ben Blue, Mickey Rooney Cameo appearance: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Marsha Hunt, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria DeHaven This film also features an very young and uncredited Cyd Charisse in DON Loper's ''Tico Tico'' number as an chorus dancer.
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Miss ''Frozen Face'' Virginia O'Brien singing along with the beautiful and very young June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven. This is one of the very early film of both June and Gloria and both of them are looking awesomely sweet! Isn't it the last part of the song is so much cute and funny? Film: Thousands Cheer, 1943 "In a Little Spanish Town" (1926) Music by Mabel Wayne Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young Played by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra and sung Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson and Virginia O'Brien "Rock a Bye Baby" (1886) Music and Lyrics by Effie I. Canning Sung by Virginia O'Brien in the "In a Little Spanish Town" number Starring: Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor, John Boles, Ben Blue, Mickey Rooney Cameo appearance: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Marsha Hunt, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria DeHaven This film also features an very young and uncredited Cyd Charisse in DON Loper's ''Tico Tico'' number as an chorus dancer.
- published: 06 Mar 2011
- views: 11367
- author: RidhimaAraina
June Allyson - Leave It to Jane, Cleopatterer (from the movie Till The Clouds Roll By, 1946)
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- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959--1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959--1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
- published: 01 Apr 2012
- views: 426
- author: John1948SevenD
A Salue to June Allyson
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
A loving tribute to a fine actress
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Little Women (1949) Trailer (June Allyson, Peter Lawford and Margaret O'Brien)
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
www.trailerobsessed.com Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s
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www.trailerobsessed.com Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s
- published: 15 Nov 2012
- views: 1106
- author: agelesstrailers
Judy & June Allyson singing "Cleopaterer" outtake from TJGS
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
****I didn't want to upload this because of how terrible it looked but whatever, lol. Just watching the two of them together makes me smile because of how much goofing off they did, lol.
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****I didn't want to upload this because of how terrible it looked but whatever, lol. Just watching the two of them together makes me smile because of how much goofing off they did, lol.
- published: 07 Dec 2009
- views: 6850
- author: Jbellaire
Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) - June Allison & Ray Mc Donald "Till The Clouds Roll By"
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
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Jack Lemmon June Allyson You Can't Run Away From It
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- Duration: 11:01
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
It's a crime that as long as I've been a fan of Jack's this film has (pardon the pun) managed to run away from me. I'm so curious to see it as its the remake of It Happened One Night (which is available practically everywhere) Sure it was a flop, but any film with Jack Lemmon is worth seeing. It's also a musicallized version of the original and here are the songs I could find available for purchase on amazon. 1. Howdy Friends and Neighbors 2. Thumbin' a Ride 3. Temporarily Hearing these songs only makes me want to watch it all the more! There's not even a trailer for it anywhere.
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It's a crime that as long as I've been a fan of Jack's this film has (pardon the pun) managed to run away from me. I'm so curious to see it as its the remake of It Happened One Night (which is available practically everywhere) Sure it was a flop, but any film with Jack Lemmon is worth seeing. It's also a musicallized version of the original and here are the songs I could find available for purchase on amazon. 1. Howdy Friends and Neighbors 2. Thumbin' a Ride 3. Temporarily Hearing these songs only makes me want to watch it all the more! There's not even a trailer for it anywhere.
- published: 29 May 2011
- views: 1796
- author: restoredeanna
Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood 1/3, Ginger Rogers, Hepburn, Bronson
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- Duration: 8:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
1987 - Barbara Eden, Debbie Allen, June Allyson, Bea Arthur, Edward Asner,Lucille Ball,Gene Barry,Drew Barrymore,Shari Belafonte,Sandahl Bergman,Tom Bosley,Morgan Brittany,Charles Bronson,Gregg Burge,Carol Burnett,Sid Caesar,Lynda Carter,Cyd Charisse,James Coburn,Dabney Coleman,Mike Connors,Bert...
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1987 - Barbara Eden, Debbie Allen, June Allyson, Bea Arthur, Edward Asner,Lucille Ball,Gene Barry,Drew Barrymore,Shari Belafonte,Sandahl Bergman,Tom Bosley,Morgan Brittany,Charles Bronson,Gregg Burge,Carol Burnett,Sid Caesar,Lynda Carter,Cyd Charisse,James Coburn,Dabney Coleman,Mike Connors,Bert...
- published: 10 Feb 2010
- views: 40795
- author: jazzfm1
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author: Micolenia
Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 1048
- author: Micolenia
29:47
Screen Director's Playhouse - Music For Millions (June Allyson, Henry Coster)
Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio and television anthology series which broug...
published: 31 Oct 2012
author: TonightOnTheRadio
Screen Director's Playhouse - Music For Millions (June Allyson, Henry Coster)
Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Director's Guild Assignment, Screen Director's Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Director's Playhouse. Tonight's Broadcast "Music For Millions" Starring: June Allyson, Henry Coster Original Air Date: April 10, 1949 Episode Number: 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 51
- author: TonightOnTheRadio
30:16
Old Gold Comedy Theater - Tom, Dick And Harry (June Allyson, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore)
The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC anthology series that aired for the single 1944-194...
published: 31 Oct 2012
author: TonightOnTheRadio
Old Gold Comedy Theater - Tom, Dick And Harry (June Allyson, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore)
The Old Gold Comedy Theater was an NBC anthology series that aired for the single 1944-1945 season. It was hosted by comedy star Harold Lloyd, of silent film fame, and featuring some of the biggest names from film and radio. The series was intended as a lighter version of The Lux Radio Theater, featuring half hour shows that were cut-down versions of successful comedy films from the time period. Despite Mr. Lloyd's best efforts, the presence of big-name movie and radio stars and the selection of successful films for scripting, the series did not last, perhaps due to the half-hour format. However, in today's time period they are quiet entertaining. It was also known as, The Old Gold Comedy Theater, Harold Lloyd Comedy Theater and The Comedy Theater Tonight's Comedy.... "Tom, Dick And Harry Starring..... June Allyson, Bill Williams, Reginald Gardner, Don De Fore Original Air Date: June 10, 1945 Episode Number: 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 32
- author: TonightOnTheRadio
116:41
mujercitas (1949)--elizabeth taylor, june allyson, peter lawford, margaret[spanish]].avi
UN CLASICO ,QUE ME TRAE NOSTALGIA DE TIEMPOS PASADOS...NAVIDAES INOLVIDABLES...
published: 20 Dec 2012
author: Sofia Ortega
mujercitas (1949)--elizabeth taylor, june allyson, peter lawford, margaret[spanish]].avi
UN CLASICO ,QUE ME TRAE NOSTALGIA DE TIEMPOS PASADOS...NAVIDAES INOLVIDABLES
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 1804
- author: Sofia Ortega
23:26
Ginger Rogers Tender Shoot.VOB
Ginger Rogers Guests on June Allyson's Show. Check out my book about Ginger's life and mov...
published: 19 Mar 2012
author: keleigh97
Ginger Rogers Tender Shoot.VOB
Ginger Rogers Guests on June Allyson's Show. Check out my book about Ginger's life and movies from the perspective of an ardent fan. www.viviantalksgingerrogers.blogspot.com
- published: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 419
- author: keleigh97
135:31
Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous...
published: 17 May 2010
author: drelbcom
Till the Clouds Roll By
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists...June Allyson.
- published: 17 May 2010
- views: 24709
- author: drelbcom
72:42
SeeTheManRun
First broadcast on December 11, 1971. Directed by Corey Allen Written by Mann Rubin Robert...
published: 09 Oct 2011
author: amaryllistwo
SeeTheManRun
First broadcast on December 11, 1971. Directed by Corey Allen Written by Mann Rubin Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson, Charles Cioffi, Antoinette Bower, Michael Bell Ross Elliot John Lipton John Goddard
- published: 09 Oct 2011
- views: 908
- author: amaryllistwo
25:19
So Dim the Light
First Broadcast February 1, 1960 Directed by Don Taylor Written by Stirling Silliphant Sta...
published: 07 Apr 2012
author: amaryllistwo
So Dim the Light
First Broadcast February 1, 1960 Directed by Don Taylor Written by Stirling Silliphant Starring June Allyson, Robert Culp, King Calder, Lawrence ( Larry) Dobkin, Dirk London ( Ray Boyle), Mary Patton, Tracy Olsen and Denny Niles Narrator Armand (Army) Archer Cameo Appearance by Robert Taylor
- published: 07 Apr 2012
- views: 627
- author: amaryllistwo
47:08
Simon & Simon - The Last Time I Saw Michael
Airdate: December 9, 1982. (Season 2, Episode 08). AJ and Rick suspect larceny when a weal...
published: 22 May 2012
author: 2604VeniceCanals
Simon & Simon - The Last Time I Saw Michael
Airdate: December 9, 1982. (Season 2, Episode 08). AJ and Rick suspect larceny when a wealthy widow claims that her deceased husband-- who disappeared at sea four years earlier-- has recently visited asking for money. Guest stars: June Allyson..............................Margaret Wells Robert Sterling...........................Michael Wells / Arthur Bristol Don Gordon...............................Knapp Jack Lucarelli.............................Earl Hickman Matthew Tobin............................Siggy
- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 2439
- author: 2604VeniceCanals
46:16
"ALL-STAR PARTY" FOR 'DUTCH' REAGAN (COMPLETE), 1985
Frank Sinatra, Eydie & Steve, and Dean Martin sing. Ben Vereen & Emmanuel Lewis do a song ...
published: 22 Oct 2012
author: westlinngirl
"ALL-STAR PARTY" FOR 'DUTCH' REAGAN (COMPLETE), 1985
Frank Sinatra, Eydie & Steve, and Dean Martin sing. Ben Vereen & Emmanuel Lewis do a song and dance number. THE BEGINNING OF THIS SHOW HAS STATIC BUT AFTER 2:18 almost perfect. I probably got this off tape just in time, before the whole tape starts doing that! Here is a list of the stars &/or celebrities that I spotted during this show, AS THEY APPEAR. Can you identify those where I have blanks? Let me know and I'll add them. Thanks. Also, would be fun to hear from anyone who was in The International Children's Choir! For those who don't know, if you click on the number to the left of performer below, YT will take you right to that spot. I didn't know this when I first got on YT. I thought it just told you where they were and you had to go back and forth with your mouse looking for that number!!! 00:07 NANCY REAGAN, of course. 00:07 Maureen Reagan (& her husband Dennis Revell-shown later) - President Reagan's daughter 00:11 Rosey Greer 00:12 Betty White 00:16 Michelle Lee 00:16 Charlton Huston 00:16 John Ritter 00:22 Monty Hall - Host 00:29 Frank Sinatra - Host (honoree of All Star Party in 1983) 01:22 Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence 01:30 Emmanuel Lewis 01:31 Robert Mitchum 01:35 Dean Martin 01:42 Burt Reynolds (honoree of All Star Party in 1981) & wife Loni Anderson 01:46 Vince Scully 01:52 Ben Vereen 01:55 Nelson Riddle Orchestra, conducted by Nick Parito. 02:38 Dionne Warwick 02:39 Phyllis Diller 03:25 Brian Keith 03:54 Glenn Ford 04:01 Fred MacMurray & June Haver 04:07 ...
- published: 22 Oct 2012
- views: 3956
- author: westlinngirl
135:09
Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) by Richard Whorf
bjazz.unblog.fr www.datday.com Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) a MGM movie (135min). Direct...
published: 01 May 2011
author: buggzugg
Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) by Richard Whorf
bjazz.unblog.fr www.datday.com Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) a MGM movie (135min). Directors: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney. Public domain. Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'. Starring June Allyson, Robert Walker (as Jerome Kern), Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansburry... Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is an american composer of successful Broadway musicals (Oh, Boy!, Show Boat, Music in the Air, Roberta, Very Warm for May ...), and such great standard songs like : All the Things You Are, A Fine Romance, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Dearly Beloved, I'm Old Fashioned, I Won't Dance, Long Ago (and Far Away), Look for the Silver Lining, Make Believe, Ol' Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Song Is You, The Way You Look Tonight, They Didn't Believe Me, Who Cares?, Why Was I Born?, Yesterdays...
- published: 01 May 2011
- views: 23559
- author: buggzugg
60:45
Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, WC Fields, Rodgers & Hart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 -- December 25, 1979) was an American actress who perf...
published: 11 Nov 2012
author: theradioarchive
Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, WC Fields, Rodgers & Hart, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 -- December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films released shortly before her death from leukemia, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979). Penny Arcade only lasted three weeks, but Al Jolson saw it and bought the rights to the play for $20000. He then sold the rights to Warner Brothers with the proviso that Blondell and Cagney be cast in the film version. Placed under contract by Warners, she moved to Hollywood where studio boss Jack Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes", but Blondell refused. She began to appear in short subjects, and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931. Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as Sinners' Holiday (1930) -- the film version of Penny ...
- published: 11 Nov 2012
- views: 1729
- author: theradioarchive
93:02
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :)
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :) My Man Godfrey is a 1936 Amer...
published: 12 Jan 2013
author: GreenLibraryFilms
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :)
My Man Godfrey - Full Official Movie - Great Quality Film :) My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava. The screenplay was written by Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by La Cava, based on "1101 Park Avenue", a short story by Eric Hatch. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. The film stars William Powell and Carole Lombard. The film was remade in 1957 with June Allyson and David Niven in the starring roles. In 1999, the original version of My Man Godfrey was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. PLOT During the Great Depression, Godfrey "Smith" (William Powell) is living alongside other men down on their luck at the city dump. One night, spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock (Gail Patrick) offers him five dollars to be her "forgotten man" for a scavenger hunt. Annoyed, he advances on her, causing her to retreat and fall on a pile of ashes. She leaves in a fury, much to the glee of her younger sister, Irene (Carole Lombard). After talking with her, Godfrey finds her to be kind, if a bit scatter-brained. He offers to go with Irene to help her beat Cornelia. In the ballroom of the Waldorf-Ritz Hotel, Irene's long-suffering businessman father, Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette), waits resignedly as his ditsy wife, Angelica (Alice Brady ...
- published: 12 Jan 2013
- views: 36
- author: GreenLibraryFilms
50:15
Hollywood Without Makeup (1963)
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Hosted...
published: 16 Aug 2012
author: TrailerBrasil
Hollywood Without Makeup (1963)
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Hosted by Ken Murray with a Special appearance by Kirk Douglas. Features footage of: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Mary Astor, Lew Ayres, Max Baer, Lucille Ball, Richard Barthelmess, Rex Bell,...
- published: 16 Aug 2012
- views: 506
- author: TrailerBrasil
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01-allyson june smith
published: 12 Dec 2010
author: Postmedia Network Inc.
01-allyson june smith
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Jo Ann Greer - June Allyson's 'A Perfect Love' from 'The Opposite Sex' (1956)
June Allyson hasn't got the fleshy sensual presence of Hayworth, Novak, Grahame, Wynn or K...
published: 22 Jun 2012
author: Alberto Cos
Jo Ann Greer - June Allyson's 'A Perfect Love' from 'The Opposite Sex' (1956)
June Allyson hasn't got the fleshy sensual presence of Hayworth, Novak, Grahame, Wynn or Kohner. However, once again Jo Ann's singing fits as a glove.
3:51
The Wedding of Steve & Allyson
Filmed: June 11, 2010
Ceremony: Heritage Gardens
Romantics: Heritage Gardens
Reception: Fr...
published: 29 Jul 2010
author: Mike Staff Productions, Inc.
The Wedding of Steve & Allyson
Filmed: June 11, 2010
Ceremony: Heritage Gardens
Romantics: Heritage Gardens
Reception: Fratello's
mikestaff.com
3:21
Vestal Violators - June [Reefer Madness] Pre-Show
The Vestal Violators pre-show for June 2010. Punching People In The Face Before Eating....
published: 27 Jun 2010
author: Allyson Klein
Vestal Violators - June [Reefer Madness] Pre-Show
The Vestal Violators pre-show for June 2010. Punching People In The Face Before Eating.
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49:31
Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow In June - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2006
Tan Dun's powerful score for cellist and four percussionists commemorates the 1989 massacr...
published: 17 Jan 2008
author: UCtelevision
Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow In June - La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2006
Tan Dun's powerful score for cellist and four percussionists commemorates the 1989 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The title refers to the 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Ching, in which a young woman, Dou Eh, is executed for crimes she did not commit. Even nature cries out for Dou Eh's innocence: her blood does not fall to earth, but flies upward, and a heavy snow falls in June. Likewise Tan Dun's music sings of pity and purity, beauty and darkness. As choreographed by Allyson Green, this striking dance/theatre work is a lament for victims everywhere. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [12/2006] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 12084]
- published: 17 Jan 2008
- views: 4999
- author: UCtelevision
135:09
La pluie qui chante (vo) - till the clouds roll by (film complet)
Film musical de 1946 (Vincente Minelli et Richard Whorf) avec Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland,...
published: 18 Jan 2013
author: Isa73CC
La pluie qui chante (vo) - till the clouds roll by (film complet)
Film musical de 1946 (Vincente Minelli et Richard Whorf) avec Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse : la biographie en musique du grand compositeur Jerome Kern (comédies musicales et musiques de film). Musical Biopic of Jerome Kern. Domaine Public
- published: 18 Jan 2013
- views: 14
- author: Isa73CC
22:07
Women Into Leadership II: Allyson Reed Presentation - March 2010
Women Into Leadership II - Journey to the Boardroom: 'Top tips for getting onto Boards - A...
published: 07 Jun 2010
author: LeedsMetUni
Women Into Leadership II: Allyson Reed Presentation - March 2010
Women Into Leadership II - Journey to the Boardroom: 'Top tips for getting onto Boards - Allyson Reed, Technology Strategy Board' - March 2010 @ The Rosebowl, Leeds
- published: 07 Jun 2010
- views: 140
- author: LeedsMetUni
59:05
2012-06-12 Coaching call with Dan Frio and Allyson Lewis
...
published: 13 Jun 2012
author: MortgageCoachEdge
2012-06-12 Coaching call with Dan Frio and Allyson Lewis
- published: 13 Jun 2012
- views: 16
- author: MortgageCoachEdge
2:30
June Allyson--Lost Interview
Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This...
published: 20 Apr 2011
author: allen stewart
June Allyson--Lost Interview
Allen Stewart Interviews June Allyson in Las Vegas. This is from on the road segment. This show was based in New Orleans
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 3179
- author: allen stewart
2:50
June Allyson "When" The Opposite Sex
Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". Th...
published: 04 Aug 2012
author: MrShowbizman
June Allyson "When" The Opposite Sex
Musical number from the movie "The Opposite Sex". June Allyson sings and dances "When". The movie is a musical version of "The Women".
- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 1105
- author: MrShowbizman
4:04
What's my Line? June Allyson
What's my Line? June Allyson...
published: 16 Nov 2008
author: NorbertR33
What's my Line? June Allyson
What's my Line? June Allyson
- published: 16 Nov 2008
- views: 15751
- author: NorbertR33
5:58
June Allyson/Peter Lawford - The Varsity Drag
From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate...
published: 22 Jan 2010
author: loafersguy
June Allyson/Peter Lawford - The Varsity Drag
From the1947 MGM film "Good News", here are June Allyson and Peter Lawford in the ultimate college gym number.
- published: 22 Jan 2010
- views: 30549
- author: loafersguy
1:42
Ginger Rogers - June Allyson's about Ginger
Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conv...
published: 25 May 2012
author: Ginger Peachy
Ginger Rogers - June Allyson's about Ginger
Full episode available at: keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca Burt's Reynold's Conversation With... 63 mins - 1991 Burt Reynolds interviews Ginger Rogers, June Allyson, Jane Powell and Esther Williams
- published: 25 May 2012
- views: 1979
- author: Ginger Peachy
2:48
June Allison Harry James
June Allison and Harry James from "The Opposite Sex" - 1956...
published: 15 Jun 2009
author: sillywilly001
June Allison Harry James
June Allison and Harry James from "The Opposite Sex" - 1956
- published: 15 Jun 2009
- views: 8832
- author: sillywilly001
21:11
Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June A...
published: 08 Oct 2012
author: Micolenia
Erenia - My Tribute to June Allyson
A funny video tribute to the sweet and lovely actress and musical singer and dancer June Allyson. She was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in "Too young to kiss". She was perhaps the best "Josephine March" in the best adaptation of "Little Women" (1949) I think you will like very well my video and that not only Junie's fans will appreciate it, because it's really amusing and because I did it playing a lot with the association between the lyrics and music of the songs, the movie stories and with the acting and facial expressions of Junie and the other Stars. Enjoy the vision and comment if you like. Bye! Erenia ^_^ (My pages: www.myspace.com fandalism.com www.facebook.com Pictures and movie scenes by: 00:04 "Right Cross" (1950 - with June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore and Marilyn Monroe); 00:10 "Too Young to Kiss"(1951 - with June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Rita Corday, Kathryn Givney, Larry Keating, Hans Conried and Esther Dale); 01:32 & 04:05 "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954 - with James Stewart, June Allyson and Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane and Louis Armstrong); 02:25 "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944 - with June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, Tom Drake, Jimmy Durante, Harry James and Arthur Walsh); 05:32 "Music for Millions" (1944 - with Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Harry Davenport and Marie Wilson); 06:30 ...
- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 1001
- author: Micolenia
4:49
What's my Line? June Allyson
What's my Line? June Allyson...
published: 26 Feb 2009
author: NorbertR33
What's my Line? June Allyson
What's my Line? June Allyson
- published: 26 Feb 2009
- views: 17304
- author: NorbertR33
1:54
June Allyson Remembered 1917-2006
Tribute to June Allyson 1917-2006....
published: 29 Aug 2007
author: HappyAcresCemetary
June Allyson Remembered 1917-2006
Tribute to June Allyson 1917-2006.
- published: 29 Aug 2007
- views: 7922
- author: HappyAcresCemetary
5:45
Judy and June Allyson
****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It migh...
published: 06 Dec 2009
author: Jbellaire
Judy and June Allyson
****Yes I know crappy hand camera quality! BUT it's the story that counts, lol. ***It might be loud...I'm just saying. "Tea for Two" segment from "The Judy Garland Show". Judy and June were friends since their MGM days. They talk about how MGM used to threaten Judy by saying they would replace her with June if she ever screwed up.
- published: 06 Dec 2009
- views: 11510
- author: Jbellaire
1:13
June Allyson on Judy Garland (Word Of Mouth)
From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on T...
published: 31 Dec 2010
author: Ute Loeffler
June Allyson on Judy Garland (Word Of Mouth)
From My personal collection June Allyson remembering her friend Judy! originally seen on TCM!
- published: 31 Dec 2010
- views: 10913
- author: Ute Loeffler
5:40
Movie Legends - June Allyson
Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door....
published: 18 Sep 2007
author: basilnelson
Movie Legends - June Allyson
Tribute to 'Junie' the American Girl-next-door.
- published: 18 Sep 2007
- views: 12499
- author: basilnelson
4:09
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson...
published: 26 Dec 2008
author: NorbertR33
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
What's my Line? Dick Powell & June Allyson
- published: 26 Dec 2008
- views: 18195
- author: NorbertR33
4:20
June Allson - Til The Clouds Go By
*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the publi...
published: 13 Sep 2008
author: mkrobinson95
June Allson - Til The Clouds Go By
*** Till the Clouds Roll By is one of several MGM musicals that have lapsed into the public domain due to MGM failing to renew copyright in the early-1970s. You can easily find this to be true by doing a google search for "Till the Clouds Roll public domain" This movie is listed on several reputable websites as being public. *** June Allyson and the MGM chorus sing "Leave it To Jane" ... then "Cleopatterer". How could MGM let this movie fall into the public domain is beyond me.
- published: 13 Sep 2008
- views: 15635
- author: mkrobinson95
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01-allyson june smith
published: 12 Dec 2010
author: Postmedia Network Inc.
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Jo Ann Greer - June Allyson's 'A Perfect Love' from 'The Opposite Sex' (1956)
June Allyson hasn't got the fleshy sensual presence of Hayworth, Novak, Grahame, Wynn or K...
published: 22 Jun 2012
author: Alberto Cos
Jo Ann Greer - June Allyson's 'A Perfect Love' from 'The Opposite Sex' (1956)
June Allyson hasn't got the fleshy sensual presence of Hayworth, Novak, Grahame, Wynn or Kohner. However, once again Jo Ann's singing fits as a glove.
3:51
The Wedding of Steve & Allyson
Filmed: June 11, 2010
Ceremony: Heritage Gardens
Romantics: Heritage Gardens
Reception: Fr...
published: 29 Jul 2010
author: Mike Staff Productions, Inc.
The Wedding of Steve & Allyson
Filmed: June 11, 2010
Ceremony: Heritage Gardens
Romantics: Heritage Gardens
Reception: Fratello's
mikestaff.com
3:21
Vestal Violators - June [Reefer Madness] Pre-Show
The Vestal Violators pre-show for June 2010. Punching People In The Face Before Eating....
published: 27 Jun 2010
author: Allyson Klein
Vestal Violators - June [Reefer Madness] Pre-Show
The Vestal Violators pre-show for June 2010. Punching People In The Face Before Eating.
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The Doodlin' Song June Allyson
June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963...
published: 20 Oct 2011
author: affairwiththepast
The Doodlin' Song June Allyson
June Allyson performing The Doodlin' Song on The Judy Garland Show 1963
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 1947
- author: affairwiththepast
3:10
"In a Little Spanish Town" - Thousands Cheer (HD Print)
Miss ''Frozen Face'' Virginia O'Brien singing along with the beautiful and very young June...
published: 06 Mar 2011
author: RidhimaAraina
"In a Little Spanish Town" - Thousands Cheer (HD Print)
Miss ''Frozen Face'' Virginia O'Brien singing along with the beautiful and very young June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven. This is one of the very early film of both June and Gloria and both of them are looking awesomely sweet! Isn't it the last part of the song is so much cute and funny? Film: Thousands Cheer, 1943 "In a Little Spanish Town" (1926) Music by Mabel Wayne Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young Played by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra and sung Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson and Virginia O'Brien "Rock a Bye Baby" (1886) Music and Lyrics by Effie I. Canning Sung by Virginia O'Brien in the "In a Little Spanish Town" number Starring: Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor, John Boles, Ben Blue, Mickey Rooney Cameo appearance: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Marsha Hunt, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria DeHaven This film also features an very young and uncredited Cyd Charisse in DON Loper's ''Tico Tico'' number as an chorus dancer.
- published: 06 Mar 2011
- views: 11367
- author: RidhimaAraina
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June Allyson - Leave It to Jane, Cleopatterer (from the movie Till The Clouds Roll By, 1946)
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress...
published: 01 Apr 2012
author: John1948SevenD
June Allyson - Leave It to Jane, Cleopatterer (from the movie Till The Clouds Roll By, 1946)
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 -- July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959--1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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A Salue to June Allyson
A loving tribute to a fine actress...
published: 23 Jun 2010
author: Dana Forrester
A Salue to June Allyson
A loving tribute to a fine actress
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- author: Dana Forrester
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21 Jan 2013
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20 Jan 2013
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21 Jan 2013
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Click photo to enlarge. An Afghan security officer looks at smoke rising from a rocket fired by militants which landed near the Kabul traffic police headquarters during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 ... «1234» ... It was the second brazen raid inside the Afghan capital in less than a week, a sign that the insurgency is determined to keep carrying out such spectacular attacks even as the U.S ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
Lexington Herald-Leader
19 Jan 2013
Dear Abby. "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?". "Absolutely nothing," she replied ... Phillips, 94, died Wednesday in Minneapolis, according to a statement from Universal Uclick press syndicate ... Dear Abby ... On Jan ... Morton Phillips, she was a socialite who counted among her friends Cary Grant, June Allyson, Neil Simon and Marsha Mason, Rhonda Fleming and Henry Winkler....(size: 10.4Kb)
Sacramento Bee
19 Jan 2013
Dear Abby. "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?". "Absolutely nothing," she replied ... Phillips, 94, died Wednesday in Minneapolis, according to a statement from Universal Uclick press syndicate ... Dear Abby ... On Jan ... Morton Phillips, she was a socialite who counted among her friends Cary Grant, June Allyson, Neil Simon and Marsha Mason, Rhonda Fleming and Henry Winkler....(size: 10.4Kb)
Sacramento Bee
18 Jan 2013
Dear Abby. "What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn't even own a toothbrush?". "Absolutely nothing," she replied ... Phillips, 94, died Wednesday in Minneapolis, according to a statement from Universal Uclick press syndicate ... Dear Abby ... On Jan ... Morton Phillips, she was a socialite who counted among her friends Cary Grant, June Allyson, Neil Simon and Marsha Mason, Rhonda Fleming and Henry Winkler....(size: 8.0Kb)
Canberra Times
21 Dec 2012
Mateship. Australian Diggers on the Kokoda Track in 1943. IT WAS a hot night in Borneo and eight Australian soldiers were sitting around discussing film stars they fancied ... They were starved of relationships with women, so the fantasy of screen idols was an intense one. One boy said June Allyson was his favourite, another liked Susan Hayward, and a third dreamt of Betty Grable. When someone spoke about Marlene Dietrich, things got steamy....(size: 11.4Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
20 Dec 2012
IT WAS a hot night in Borneo and eight Australian soldiers were sitting around discussing film stars they fancied ... They were starved of relationships with women, so the fantasy of screen idols was an intense one. One boy said June Allyson was his favourite, another liked Susan Hayward, and a third dreamt of Betty Grable ... Advertisement ....(size: 1.7Kb)
The Examiner
18 Dec 2012
Now through January 3rd, the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto is presenting one of the most revealing film festivals anywhere, perhaps in decades – a retrospective of the work of young Hollywood soprano, Deanna Durbin ... I could testify to the appeal of Jeanette MacDonald, June Allyson, Joan Blondell, and Ginger Rogers – but the celebrity status and artistic impact of the once highest-paid Hollywood soprano was totally lost on me ... Herman J....(size: 6.0Kb)
Starpulse
07 Oct 2012
Happy Birthday to.. Music/TV mogul Simon Cowell (1959). Actress Ayla Kell (1990). Actress Bree Olson (1986). Electronic music producer Flying Lotus (1983) ... Smith (1957) ... Actress June Allyson (1917; d ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
07 Oct 2012
Budd Burton Moss is in his upstairs office at his Westwood Village house, working his computer to find work for actor Maxwell Caulfield ... At 82, Moss is one of Hollywood's most seasoned agents and managers ... He delivered vehicles to June Allyson, Esther Williams, Elizabeth Taylor and Cyd Charisse and began working as an extra in films such as "It's a Wonderful Life," "The Ten Commandments" and "The Bridges at Toko-Ri." ... 0. ... ... - L.A ... ....(size: 34.0Kb)
Jakarta Globe
01 Oct 2012
Missouri, US ... The singer known for his wholesome, middle-America appeal was the antithesis of the counterculture ... 1 smash "Butterfly." ... She had taken a position as vocal coach at MGM studios, working with Judy Garland, June Allyson and others ... When Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968, just after winning the California Democratic primary, Williams sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at his funeral ... AP ....(size: 9.6Kb)
Denver Post
30 Sep 2012
Playwright and dramaturg Douglas Langworthy, at the Stage Theater, is one of three playwrights for the upcoming "Three Musketeers" at the Denver Center Theatre Company. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post) ... His work, as they say, will be done — at least for this production. But then, such is the nature of the dramaturg's job ... They found a guide in the 1948 big screen swashbuckler starring Gene Kelly, June Allyson and Lana Turner ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
The Tribune San Luis Obispo
27 Sep 2012
The singer known for his wholesome, middle-America appeal was the antithesis of the counterculture ... 1 smash "Butterfly." ... In fact, he insisted on it ... She had taken a position as vocal coach at MGM studios, working with Judy Garland, June Allyson and others ... When Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968, just after winning the California Democratic primary, Williams sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at his funeral ... ....(size: 9.0Kb)
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27 Sep 2012
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| June Allyson | |
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 The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) |
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| Born | Eleanor Geisman (1917-10-07)October 7, 1917 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 8, 2006(2006-07-08) (aged 88) Ojai, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1937–2001 |
| Spouse |
Dick Powell (m. 1945–1963) «start: (1945)–end+1: (1964)»"Marriage: Dick Powell to June Allyson" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/June_Allyson) (his death) 2 children |
| Website | |
| http://www.juneallyson.com/ | |
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments.[1]
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Early life[link]
Allyson was born Eleanor Geisman,[2] nicknamed "Ella," in The Bronx, New York City. She was the daughter of Clara (née Provost) and Robert Geisman. She had a brother, Henry, who was two years older. She claimed to be raised as a Roman Catholic[citation needed] but there is discrepancy relating to her early life as her studio biography was often the source of the confusion. Her paternal grandparents, Harry Geisman and Anna Hafner, were immigrants from Germany,[2] although Allyson claimed her last name was originally "Van Geisman", and was of Dutch origin.[3] Studio biographies listed her as "Jan Allyson" born to French-English parents. On her death her daughter said Allyson was born "Eleanor Geisman to a French mother and Dutch father."[4][N 1]
In April 1918 (when Allyson was six months old) her alcoholic father, who had worked as a janitor, abandoned the family. Allyson was brought up in near poverty, living with her maternal grandparents.[5] To make ends meet her mother worked as a telephone operator and restaurant cashier. When she had enough funds, she would occasionally reunite with her daughter, but more often Allyson was "farmed" out to her grandparents or other relatives.[5]
In 1925 (when Allyson was eight) a tree branch fell on her while she was riding on her tricycle with her pet terrier in tow.[6] Allyson sustained a fractured skull and broken back, and her dog was killed. Her doctors said she would never walk again and confined her to a heavy steel brace from neck to hips for four years, and she ultimately regained her health. But when Allyson had become famous she was terrified that people would discover her background from the "tenement side of New York City", and she readily agreed to studio tales of a "rosy life" including a concocted story that she underwent months of swimming exercises in rehabilitation to emerge as a star swimmer.[5] In her later memoirs, Allyson does describe a summer program of swimming that did help her recovery.[7]
After gradually progressing from a wheelchair to crutches to braces, Allyson's true "escape" from her impoverished life was to go to the movies where she was enraptured by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire movies.[5] As a teen Allyson memorized the trademark Ginger Rogers dance routines; she claimed later to have watched The Gay Divorcee 17 times.[8] She also tried to emulate the singing styles of movie stars, although she never mastered reading music.[9] When her mother remarried and the family was reunited with a more stable financial standing, Allyson was enrolled in the Ned Wayburn Dancing Academy and began to enter dance competitions with the stage name of "Elaine Peters."[10] With the death of her stepfather and a bleak future ahead, she left high school after completing two and half years, to seek jobs as a dancer. Her first $60-a-week job was as a tap dancer at the Lido Club in Montreal. Returning to New York, she found work as an actress in movie short subjects filmed by Educational Pictures at its Astoria, Long Island studio.[11] Fiercely ambitious, Allyson tried her hand at modeling, but, to her consternation became the "sad-looking before part" in a before-and-after bathing suit magazine ad.[12] Her first career "break" came when Educational cast her as an ingenue opposite singer Lee Sullivan, comic dancers Herman Timberg, Jr. and Pat Rooney, Jr. and future comedy star Danny Kaye. When Educational ceased operations, Allyson moved to Vitaphone in Brooklyn, and starred or co-starred (with dancer Hal Le Roy) in musical shorts.
Career[link]
Interspersing jobs in the chorus line at the Copacabana Club with acting roles at Vitaphone, the diminutive 5'1" (1.55 m), weighing less than 100 pounds, red-headed Allyson landed a chorus job in the Broadway show Sing out the News in 1938.[13] The legend is that the choreographer gave her a job and a new name: Allyson, a family name, and June, for the month,[6] although like many aspects of her career resume, the derivation is highly unlikely as she was already dubbing herself "June Allyson" prior to her Broadway engagement and has even attributed the name to a later director. [N 2]Allyson subsequently appeared in the chorus in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May (1939).[11]
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The handprints of June Allyson in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
When Vitaphone discontinued New York production in 1940, Allyson returned to the New York stage to take on more chorus roles in Rodgers and Hart's Higher and Higher (1940) and Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (1940). Her dancing and musical talent led to a stint as an understudy for the lead, Betty Hutton, and when Hutton contracted measles, Allyson appeared in five performances of Panama Hattie.[11] Broadway director George Abbott caught one of the nights, and offered Allyson one of the lead roles in his production of Best Foot Forward (1941).[14]
After her appearance in the Broadway musical, Allyson was selected for the 1943 film version of Best Foot Forward.[15] When she arrived in Hollywood, the production had not started so MGM "placed her on the payroll" of Girl Crazy (1943). Despite playing a "bit part," Allyson received good reviews as a sidekick to Best Foot Forward's star, Lucille Ball, but was still relegated to the "drop list."[16] MGM's musical supervisor, Arthur Freed, saw her test sent up by an agent and insisted that Allyson be put on contract immediately.[17] Another musical, Thousands Cheer (1943), was again a showcase for her singing and dancing, albeit still in a minor role.[18] As a new starlet, although Allyson had already been a performer on stage and screen, she was presented as an "overnight sensation," with Hollywood press agents attempting to portray her as an ingenue, selectively slicing years off her true age. Studio bios listed her variously as being born in 1922 and 1923.[5]
Allyson's breakthrough was in Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) where the studio image of the "girl next door"[19] was fostered by her being cast alongside long-time acting chum Van Johnson, the quintessential "boy next door."[20] As the "sweetheart team," Johnson and Allyson were to appear together in four later films.[21]
Allyson's early success as a musical star led to several other postwar musicals, including Two Sisters from Boston (1946) and Good News (1947).[14] Allyson also played straight roles such as Constance in The Three Musketeers (1948), the tomboy Jo March in Little Women (1949), and a nurse in Battle Circus (1953).[21] She was very adept at opening the waterworks on cue, and many of her films incorporated a crying scene. Fellow MGM player Margaret O'Brien recalled that she and Allyson were known as "the town criers."[22]
In 1950, Allyson had been signed to appear opposite her childhood idol Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, but had to leave the production due to pregnancy. (She was replaced initially by Judy Garland, and later Jane Powell.) She starred in 1956 with a young rising star named Jack Lemmon in the musical comedy, You Can't Run Away From It. Besides Van Johnson, James Stewart was a frequent costar, teaming up with Allyson in films such as The Glenn Miller Story, The Stratton Story and Strategic Air Command.
A versatile performer, Allyson also appeared on radio, and after her film career ended she made a handful of nightclub singing engagements. In later years, Allyson appeared on television, not only in her own series, but in such popular programs as The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. The DuPont Show with June Allyson ran for two seasons on CBS and was an attempt to use a "high budget" formula. Her efforts were dismissed by the entertainment reviewer in the LA Examiner as "reaching down to the level of mag fiction."[23] However, TV Guide and other fan magazines such as TV considered Allyson's foray into television as revitalizing her fame and career for a younger audience, and remarked that her stereotyping by the movie industry as the "girl next door" was the "waste and neglect of talent on its own doorstep."[24]
Personal life[link]
On her arrival in Hollywood, studio heads attempted to enhance the pairing of Van Johnson and Allyson by sending out the two contracted players on a series of "official dates" which were highly publicized and led to a public perception that a romance had been kindled.[25] Although dating David Rose, Peter Lawford and John F. Kennedy, Allyson was actually being courted by movie heartthrob and powerful Hollywood "player" Dick Powell, who was 13 years her senior and had been previously married to Mildred Maund and Joan Blondell.[26]
On August 19, 1945, Allyson caused MGM studio chief, Louis B. Mayer some consternation by marrying Dick Powell.[27] After defying him twice by refusing to stop seeing Powell, in a "tactical master stroke", she asked Mayer to give her away at the wedding.[28] He was so disarmed that he agreed but put Allyson on suspension anyway.[29] The Powells had two children, Pamela Allyson Powell (adopted in 1948 through the Tennessee Children's Home Society in an adoption arranged by Georgia Tann) and Richard Powell, Jr. (born December 24, 1950).[30] In 1961, Allyson underwent a kidney operation and later, throat surgery, temporarily affecting her trademark raspy-voice.[31] The couple briefly separated in 1961, but reconciled and remained married until his death on January 2, 1963.
Powell's wealth made it possible for Allyson to effectively retire from show business after his death, making only occasional appearances on talk and variety shows. Allyson returned to the Broadway stage in 1970 in the play Forty Carats[13] and later toured in a production of No, No Nanette.
After Powell's death, Allyson committed herself to charitable work on his behalf, championing the importance of research in urological and gynecological diseases in seniors, and represented the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in commercials for adult incontinence products. Following a life-long interest in health and medical research (Allyson had initially wanted to use her acting career to fund her own training as a doctor),[18] she was instrumental in establishing the June Allyson Foundation for Public Awareness and Medical Research. Allyson also financed her brother, Dr. Arthur Peters through his medical training, and he went on to specialize in otolaryngology.[3] She also went though a bitter court battle with her mother over custody of the children she had with Powell. Reports at the time revealed that writer/director Dirk Summers, with whom Allyson was romantically involved from 1963 to 1975, was named legal guardian for Ricky and Pamela as a result of a court petition. Members of the nascent jet-set, Allyson and Summers were frequently seen in Cap d'Antibes, Madrid, Rome, and London. However, Summers refused to marry her and the relationship did not last.[32]
Following her separation from Summers, Allyson was twice married to and divorced from businessman Alfred Glenn Maxwell, who owned a number of barbershops and had been Powell's barber,.[31] During this time, Allyson struggled with alcoholism, which she overcame in the mid-1970s. In 1976, Allyson married David Ashrow, a dentist turned actor. The couple occasionally performed together in regional theater, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s, toured the United States with the stage play My Daughter, Your Son. They also appeared on celebrity cruise ship tours on the Royal Viking Sky, in a program that highlighted Allyson's movie career.[33]
Her autobiography, June Allyson by June Allyson (1982) received generally complimentary reviews due to its insider look at Hollywood in one of its golden ages. A more critical appraisal came from Janet Maslin at the New York Times in her review, "Hollywood Leaves Its Imprint on Its Chroniclers", who noted: “Miss Allyson presents herself as the same sunny, tomboyish figure she played on screen Hollywood... like someone who has come to inhabit the very myths she helped to create on the screen."[6] Privately, Allyson admitted that her earlier screen portrayals had left her uneasy about the typecast "good wife" roles she had played.[34]
As a personal friend of President and Mrs. Reagan she was invited to many White House Dinners, and in 1988, President Reagan appointed her to “The Federal Council of Aging”. Allyson and her later husband, Dr. Ashrow, actively supported fund-raising efforts for both the James Stewart and Judy Garland museums; both Stewart and Garland had been close friends.[6]
In 1993, her name also made headlines when actor-turned-agent Marty Ingels publicly charged Allyson with not paying his large commission on the earlier deal on incontinence product advertising. Allyson denied owing any money, and she and Ashrow filed a lawsuit for slander and emotional distress, charging that Ingels was harassing and threatening them, stating Ingels made 138 phone calls during a single eight-hour period. Earlier that year, Ingels had pleaded no contest to making annoying phone calls.[35] In December 1993, Allyson christened the Holland America Maasdam, one of the flagships of the Holland America line. Although her heritage, like much of her personal story, was subject to different interpretations, Allyson always claimed to be proud of a Dutch ancestry.[3]
Allyson made a special appearance in 1994 in That's Entertainment III, as one of the film's narrators. She spoke about MGM's golden era, and introduced vintage film clips. In 1996, Allyson became the first recipient of the Harvey Award, presented by the James M. Stewart Museum Foundation, in recognition of her positive contributions to the world of entertainment.[36] Until 2003, Allyson remained as busy as ever touring the country making personal appearances, headlining celebrity cruises and speaking on behalf of Kimberly-Clark, a long-time commercial interest.[33]The American Urogynecologic Society established the June Allyson Foundation in 1998 made possible by a grant from Kimberly-Clark. As the first celebrity to undertake the role of public spokesperson for promoting the use of the Depend undergarment, Allyson did "more than any other public figure to encourage and persuade people with incontinence to lead fuller and more active lives." [1]
Following hip-replacement surgery in 2003, Allyson's health began to deteriorate. With her husband at her side, she died July 8, 2006, aged 88 at her home in Ojai, California. Her death was a result of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis.[37]On her death, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) contributed $25,000 to the June Allyson Foundation to support research advances in the care and treatment of women with urinary incontinence.[1]
Awards[link]
In 1952, Allyson won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress—Musical/Comedy, for Too Young to Kiss. In 1954, she was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at the Venice Festival, for Executive Suite, in the same year that she was voted Most Popular Female Star by Photoplay magazine. In 1955, Allyson was named the ninth most popular movie star in the annual Quigley Exhibitors Poll and the second most popular female star (behind Grace Kelly). In 1985, she received the Cannes Festival Distinguished Service Award.[33]
At the 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007), Allyson received a special tribute as part of the Annual Memorial tribute, it included a clip of her smiling and laughing. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1537 Vine Street.[38]
| “ | I couldn't dance, and, Lord knows, I couldn't sing, but I got by somehow. Richard Rodgers was always keeping them from firing me. | ” |
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- Notes
- ^ During her lifetime Allyson published an autobiography that has led to much of the confusion as her recollections did not correspond to the actual record, starting with her birthdate and her family background. MGM was partly to blame as the studio PR machine created a "goody two shoes" image of a young ingenue which required some imaginative tailoring of her age, family circumstances and even her famous "tree limb" story.
- ^ The name "June Allyson" has been attributed to three different sources and June herself had a different memory of where it came from but the use of a nickname and stage name had already been used in her teen years. On the Larry King interview, her recall was that Broadway producer George Abbott had given her the name while other sources have her first stage choreographer giving her the name in exasperation, as he couldn't be bothered to remember her real name, at least that's the tale in her book. Likely the name made sense to her as she liked "Allison," her brother's name, and simply tacked June onto it, and was reportedly using it before her Broadway debut.
- Citations
- ^ a b c "Kimberly-Clark Corporation Honors June Allyson And Her Humanitarian Contributions: Long-Time Depend Brand Spokesperson Educated Millions on Incontinence." Kimberly-Clark Corporation, July 11, 2006. Retrieved: May 12, 2012.
- ^ a b Ancestry.com according to the 1920 U.S. census
- ^ a b c "June Allyson Discusses Her Career." CNN Larry King Live. Retrieved: September 10, 2009.
- ^ Luther, Claudia. "Obituaries: Film Sweetheart June Allyson Dies at 88." zap2it.com, Special to The Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2006. Retrieved: March 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 1.
- ^ a b c d e Harmetz, Aljean. "June Allyson, Adoring Wife in MGM Films, Is Dead at 88." nytimes.com, July 11, 2006. Retrieved: March 14, 2010.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 8.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 7.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, pp. 10, 36.
- ^ Parish and Pitts 2003, pp. 1, 3.
- ^ a b c Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 3.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 11.
- ^ a b "June Allyson." Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved: September 10, 2009.
- ^ a b Basinger 2007, p. 482.
- ^ Hirschhorn 1991, p. 224.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, pp. 22–23.
- ^ Fordin 1996, p. 67.
- ^ a b Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 22.
- ^ Milner 1998, p. 155.
- ^ Davis 2001, p. 34.
- ^ a b Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 4.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 37.
- ^ Becker 2009, pp. 116–117.
- ^ Becker 2009, p. 33.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, pp. 51–53.
- ^ Kennedy 2007, p. 130.
- ^ Wayne 2002, p. 392.
- ^ Eyman 2005, p. 290.
- ^ Wayne 2006, p. 46.
- ^ Allyson and Leighton 1982, pp. 30–31
- ^ a b Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 5.
- ^ Carroll, Harrison. "June Allyson & Dirk Summers Marriage." Herald Examiner, Vol. XCV, Issue 223, November 4, 1965, p. Front Page.
- ^ a b c "Biography: June Allyson." juneallyson.com. Retrieved: October 17, 2010.
- ^ Weil, Martin. "Perky Actress June Allyson, 88." Washington Post, July 11, 2006, p. B06. Retrieved: March 14, 2010.
- ^ "Allyson Lawsuit Accuses Marty Ingels of Slander." archive.deseretnews.com. Retrieved: September 10, 2009.
- ^ "The Jimmy Stewart Museum." jimmy.org.
- ^ Mormon 2007, p. 65.
- ^ "June Allyson awards." IMDB. Retrieved: September 10, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Allyson, June. June Allyson's Feeling Great: A Daily Dozen Exercises for Creative Aging. New York: Da Capo Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-88496-257-1.
- Allyson, June and Frances Spatz Leighton. June Allyson by June Allyson. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. ISBN 0-399-12726-7.
- Basinger, Jeanine. The Star Machine. New York: Knopf, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4000-4130-5.
- Becker, Christine. It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television (Wesleyan Film). Indianapolis, Indiana: Wesleyan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8195-6894-6.
- Davis, Ronald L. Van Johnson: MGM’s Golden Boy (Hollywood Legends Series). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. ISBN 978-1-57806-377-2.
- Eyman, Scott. Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Meyer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-0481-1.
- Fordin, Hugh. M-G-M's Greatest Musicals. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-306-80730-5.
- Hirschhorn, Clive. The Hollywood Musical. London: Pyramid Books, 1991, first edition 1981. ISBN 978-1-85510-080-0.
- Kennedy, Matthew. Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes (Hollywood Legends Series). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57806-961-3.
- Milner, Jay Dunston. Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp through the High-flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-57441-050-1.
- Mormon, Robert. Demises of the Distinguished. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4343-1546-5.
- Parish, James Robert and Michael R. Pitts. Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors who can Sing. London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 978-0-415-94332-1.
- Wayne, Jane Ellen. The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7867-1117-8.
- Wayne, Jane Ellen. The Leading Men of MGM. New York: Da Capo Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7867-1768-2.
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| Peter Lawford | |
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| Born | Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen[1] (1923-09-07)7 September 1923 London, England, UK |
| Died | 24 December 1984(1984-12-24) (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film and television actor; film producer |
| Years active | 1930–1983 |
| Spouse |
Patricia Kennedy (m. 1954–1966) «start: (1954)–end+1: (1967)»"Marriage: Patricia Kennedy to Peter Lawford" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Peter_Lawford); divorced; 4 children |
Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen[2][3] (7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984), better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.[4]
He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.
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Early life[link]
Born in London in 1923, he was the only child of Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford KBE (1865-1953) and May Aylen (née May Sommerville Bunny, 1883-1972). At the time of Lawford's birth, however, his mother was married to her second husband, Dr. Capt. Ernest Vaughn Aylen, one of Sir Sidney's officers, while his father was married to the former Muriel Williams.[5][6] After Peter's birth, his mother confessed to Aylen that the child was not his, a revelation that resulted in a double divorce. Sir Sydney and May Aylen then wed in September 1924, after their divorces were finalized and when their son was one year old.[7]
Lawford's family was connected to the British aristocracy through his uncle Ernest Lawford's wife (a daughter of the 14th Earl of Eglinton) as well as his aunt Ethel Turner Lawford (who married a son of the first Baron Avebury). His aunt Jessie Bruce Lawford, another of his father's sisters, was the second wife of the Hon Hartley Williams, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria, Australia. A relative, through his mother, was Australian artist Rupert Bunny.
He spent his early childhood in France, and owing to his family's travels, was never formally educated. Instead he was schooled by governesses and tutors and his education included tennis and ballet lessons.[8] "In the beginning," his mother observed, "he had no homework. When he was older he had Spanish, German, and music added to his studies. He read only selected books—English fairy stories, English and French classics; no crime stories. Having studied Peter for so long, I decided he was quite unfitted for any career except art, so I cut Latin, Algebra, high mathematics and substituted dramatics instead."[9] Due to the widely varying national and religious backgrounds of his tutors, Lawford "attended various services in churches, cathedrals, synagogues, and for some time was an usher in a Christian Science Sunday School ..."[10] Around 1930, aged seven, he made his acting debut in the English film Poor Old Bill.
At the age of 14, Lawford severely injured his right arm in an accident when it went through a glass door.[11] The injury greatly compromised the use of his lower arm and hand with irreversible nerve damage,[12] which he later learned to hide.[13] The injury was considered damaging enough to keep him from entering the military, which his parents had planned.[14] Instead, Lawford decided to pursue a career as an actor, a decision that resulted in one of his aunts refusing to leave him her considerable fortune, as originally planned.[15]
Career[link]
Films[link]
Prior to World War II, Lawford had gained a contract position with the MGM studios. Once he signed with MGM, his mother insisted that studio head Louis B. Mayer pay her a salary as her son's personal assistant, which Mayer declined. Lady Lawford responded by claiming her son was "a bummer" and needed to be "supervised". When Lawford learned of his mother's actions their relationship was reportedly never the same.[citation needed]
MGM career[link]
Lawford's first movie role was at age seven in the film Poor Old Bill (1930). In 1938, he made his Hollywood debut in a minor part in the film Lord Jeff. His first role in a major film production was in A Yank At Eton (1942), where he played a snobbish bully opposite Mickey Rooney. The picture was a smash hit, and Lawford's performance was widely praised. Lawford made uncredited appearances as an RAF pilot in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and as a sailor in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943).
He won acclaim for his performance in The White Cliffs Of Dover (1944), in which he played a young soldier during World War II. MGM gave him another important role in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Peter Lawford's first leading role came in Son of Lassie (1945) and he later won a Modern Screen magazine readers' poll as the most popular actor in Hollywood of 1946. His fan mail jumped to thousands of letters a week. Lawford had become a major star.[citation needed]
With actors such as Clark Gable and James Stewart away at war, Lawford was recognized as the romantic lead on the MGM lot. Lawford's busiest year as an actor was 1946, when two of his films opened within days of each other: Cluny Brown and Two Sisters From Boston. He also made his first comedy that same year: My Brother Talks To Horses (released in 1947). He appeared with Frank Sinatra for the first time in the musical It Happened in Brooklyn (1947). Lawford received rave reviews for his work in the film,[16] while Sinatra's were lukewarm.
Lawford later admitted that the most terrifying experience of his career was the first musical number he performed (the Jitterbug).[citation needed] In the musical Good News (1947), using an American accent, he won acclaim as a performer. He was given other supporting roles in MGM films over the next few years, including On an Island with You (1948), Easter Parade (1948), Little Women (1949) and Royal Wedding (1951).
Post-MGM[link]
The actor's first film after Metro released him and several other players from their contracts was the comedy It Should Happen to You, where he starred alongside Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon. In 1959, Frank Sinatra invited the Englishman to join "The Rat Pack" and also got him a role in Never So Few. The casino caper Ocean’s 11 (1960) was a project Lawford first brought to Sinatra's attention.[17] It became the first film to feature all five main "Rat Pack" members: Lawford, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop. Later films included The Longest Day (1962), and a role as a United States Senator in Advise & Consent (1962).
In 1961, Lawford and his manager Milt Ebbins formed Chrislaw Productions, which was named after his son Christopher Lawford[18] and produced the 1963 action film, Johnny Cool, starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery. He went on to produce the 1965 Patty Duke film, Billie, as well as two films with Sammy Davis, Jr., Salt and Pepper and One More Time.
He appeared in They Only Kill Their Masters (1972), which reunited him with several former MGM contract players. His last role was as Montague Chippendale in the comedy Where's Parsifal (1983).
Television[link]
Lawford made his television debut in 1953 in a guest starring role on Ronald W. Reagan's anthology series, General Electric Theater. In 1954, he starred as a newspaper advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist named Bill Hastings in the short-lived NBC series Dear Phoebe with Marcia Henderson and Charles Lane. From 1957 to 1959, Lawford co-starred with Phyllis Kirk in The Thin Man, an NBC series based on the novel by Dashiel Hammett. He had a recurring role on The Doris Day Show from 1971–73, as the love interest to Day's character. He guest starred on various television series including The Martha Raye Show, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Wild Wild West, The Virginian, Bewitched, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and The Bob Cummings Show. Besides guest spots, he also guest-starred on variety shows such as The Judy Garland Show and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and game shows What's My Line?, Password, and Pyramid.
Personal life[link]
His first marriage, in 1954, was to Patricia Kennedy, sister of then-US Senator John F. Kennedy. They had four children: their son, actor and author Christopher Kennedy Lawford (born 1955), their daughters Sydney Maleia Kennedy Lawford (born 1956), Victoria Francis Lawford (born 1958), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford (born 1961).
Lawford became an American citizen on April 23, 1960. He had prepared for this in time to vote for his brother-in-law in the upcoming presidential election.[19] Lawford, along with other members of the "Rat Pack", helped campaign for Kennedy and the Democratic Party.[20] Sinatra famously dubbed him "Brother-in-Lawford" at this time.[21][22] Lawford and Patricia Kennedy divorced in February 1966.[23][24] Insiders in Hollywood later said that Lawford's extramarital activities and Kennedy's strict principles led to divorce. In addition, Lawford had a fight with Sinatra, and he found himself out of the Rat Pack. He drifted between films and TV, while experimenting with drugs, sex, and drinking.
Lawford married his second wife, Mary Rowan, daughter of comedian Dan Rowan, in October 1971 when she was one day shy of 22 years old;[25] Lawford was 48.[26] Rowan and Lawford separated two years later and divorced in January 1975. In June 1976, he married aspiring actress Deborah Gould, 25, whom he had known for only three weeks.[27] Lawford and Gould separated two months after marrying and divorced in 1977. During his separation from Gould, Lawford met seventeen-year-old Patricia Seaton, who became his fourth and final wife in July 1984, months before his death.[28]
Death[link]
Lawford died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve 1984, aged 61, from cardiac arrest. He had suffered from kidney and liver failure after years of substance abuse.[29] His body was cremated, and his ashes were interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.[30] Owing to a dispute between his widow and the cemetery, Lawford's ashes were removed and scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California by his widow, Patricia Seaton Lawford, who invited the National Enquirer tabloid to photograph the event.[31] A plaque bearing Lawford's name was erected at Westwood Village Memorial Park.
For his contribution to the television industry, Peter Lawford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6920 Hollywood Blvd.
Selected filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1930 | Poor Old Bill | Horace | |
| 1931 | A Gentleman of Paris | Child | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Lord Jeff | Benny Potter | |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | Pilot | Uncredited |
| 1942 | Random Harvest | Soldier | Uncredited |
| 1942 | A Yank At Eton | Ronnie Kenvil | |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion | Student | Uncredited |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death | Sailor | Uncredited |
| 1943 | Sahara | British soldier | Uncredited |
| 1944 | The White Cliffs of Dover | John Ashwood the Second as a Young Man | |
| 1944 | Canterville Ghost, TheThe Canterville Ghost | Anthony de Canterville | |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington | Lord Thornley | |
| 1945 | Picture of Dorian Gray, TheThe Picture of Dorian Gray | David Stone | |
| 1945 | Son of Lassie | Joe Carraclough | |
| 1946 | Cluny Brown | Andrew Carmel | |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston | Lawrence Tyburn Patterson, Jr. | |
| 1947 | My Brother Talks to Horses | John S. Penrose | |
| 1947 | Good News | Tommy Marlowe | |
| 1947 | It Happened in Brooklyn | Jamie Shellgrove | |
| 1948 | Easter Parade | Jonathan Harrow III | |
| 1948 | Julia Misbehaves | Ritchie Lorgan | |
| 1948 | On an Island with You | Lawrence Kingsley | |
| 1949 | Red Danube, TheThe Red Danube | Major John "Twingo" McPhimister | |
| 1949 | Little Women | Theodore "Laurie" Laurence | |
| 1950 | Please Believe Me | Jeremy Taylor | |
| 1951 | Royal Wedding | Lord John Brindale | Alternative title: Wedding Bells |
| 1952 | The Hour of 13 | Nicholas Revel | |
| 1953 | Rogue's March | Capt. Dion Lenbridge/Pvt. Harry Simms | |
| 1954 | It Should Happen to You | Evan Adams III | |
| 1959 | Never So Few | Capt. Grey Travis | Alternative title: Campaign Burma |
| 1960 | Exodus | Major Caldwell | |
| 1960 | Ocean's 11 | Jimmy Foster | |
| 1962 | Sergeants 3 | Sgt. Larry Barrett | |
| 1962 | Advise and Consent | Senator Lafe Smith | |
| 1962 | Longest Day, TheThe Longest Day | Lord Lovat | |
| 1964 | Dead Ringer | Tony Collins | Alternative title: Dead Image |
| 1965 | Harlow | Paul Bern | |
| 1966 | Oscar, TheThe Oscar | Steve Marks | |
| 1968 | Skidoo | The Senator | |
| 1968 | Salt and Pepper | Christopher Pepper | |
| 1969 | The April Fools | Ted Gunther | |
| 1969 | Hook, Line & Sinker | Dr. Scott Carter | |
| 1970 | One More Time | Christopher Pepper/Lord Sydney Pepper | |
| 1972 | They Only Kill Their Masters | Campbell | |
| 1975 | Rosebud | Lord Carter | |
| 1979 | Angels Revenge | Burke | Alternative title: Angels' Brigade Seven from Heaven |
| 1979 | Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | Gordon Duvall | |
| 1981 | Body and Soul | Big Man | |
| 1983 | Where Is Parsifal? | Montague Chippendale |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1954 to 1955 | Dear Phoebe | Bill Hastings | 32 episodes |
| 1955 | Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre | Stephen | Episode: "Stephen and Publius Cyrus" |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 | Willis Wayde | Episode: "Sincerely, Willis Wade" |
| 1957 | Producers' Showcase | Lord Brinstead | Episode: "Ruggles of Red Gap" |
| 1957 to 1959 | The Thin Man | Nick Charles | 72 episodes |
| 1958 | The Bob Cummings Show | Himself | Episode: "Bob Judges a Beauty Pageant" |
| 1959 | Goodyear Theatre | Major John Marshall | Episode: "Point of Impact" |
| 1966 | Run for Your Life | Larry Carter | Episode: "Carnival Ends at Midnight" |
| 1967 | I Spy | Hackaby | Episode: "Get Thee to a Nunnery" |
| 1971 | Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You | Ellery Queen | TV Movie |
| 1971 to 1973 | Doris Day Show, TheThe Doris Day Show | Dr. Peter Lawrence | 8 episodes |
| 1978 | Hawaii Five-O | Kenneth Kirk | Episode: "Frozen Assets" |
| 1979 | Supertrain | Quentin Fuller | Episode: "A Very Formal Heist" |
| 1981 | Jeffersons, TheThe Jeffersons | Museum Guide (Voice) | Episode: "The House That George Built" |
Footnotes[link]
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 34)
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 34)
- ^ Birth name as per www.findmypast.co.uk
- ^ Obituary Variety, December 26, 1984.
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 34)
- ^ May Lawford's first husband was Dr. Harry Cooper, a military surgeon, who died shortly after their marriage.
- ^ (Wayne 2006, p. 280)
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 44)
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 44)
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 48)
- ^ (Spada 1991, pp. 47–48)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 50)
- ^ (Wayne 2006, p. 281)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 65)
- ^ May Lawford, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brandon Publishing, 1986), page 52)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 111)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 213)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 339)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 233)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 228)
- ^ (Schroeder 2004, pp. 81–82)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 207)
- ^ (Rorabaugh 2002, p. 146)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 366)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 410)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 408)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 433)
- ^ (Bly 1999, pp. 187–188)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 468)
- ^ (Spada 1991, p. 469)
- ^ (Spada 1991, pp. 470–471)
References[link]
- Aaker, Everett (2006), Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters: All Regular Cast Members in American Crime and Mystery Series, 1948–1959, McFarland, ISBN 0-7864-2476-1
- Bly, Nellie (1999), The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets, E-Reads Ltd., ISBN 0-7592-1233-3
- Rorabaugh, W.J. (2002), Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-81617-3
- Schroeder, Alan (2004), Celebrity-in-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House, Westview Press, ISBN 0-8133-4137-X
- Spada, James (1991), Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets, Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-07185-8
- Wayne, Jane Ellen (2006), The Leading Men of MGM, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0-7867-1768-8
Further reading[link]
- Lawford, May; Galon, Buddy (1986), The Autobiography of Lady Lawford As Told to Buddy Galon, Brookline, Mass.: Branden Publishing Co., ISBN 0-8283-1995-2
- Seaton, Patricia (1988), The Peter Lawford Story, New York: Carroll and Graf, ISBN 0-515-10264-4
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| Ginger Rogers | |
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| Born | Virginia Katherine McMath (1911-07-16)July 16, 1911 Independence, Missouri |
| Died | April 25, 1995(1995-04-25) (aged 83) Rancho Mirage, California |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, artist, and dancer |
| Years active | 1929–1987 |
| Spouse | Jack Pepper (m.1929–1931; divorced) Lew Ayres (m.1934–1941; divorced) Jack Briggs (m.1943–1949; divorced) Jacques Bergerac (m.1953–1957; divorced) William Marshall (m.1961–1969; divorced) |
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of actress screen legends.
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Early life[link]
Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, the only child of William Eddins McMath, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Lela Emogene (née Owens; 1891–1977).[1] Ginger's parents separated soon after her birth, and she and her mother went to live with her grandparents, Walter and Saphrona (née Ball) Owens, in nearby Kansas City. Rogers' parents fought over her custody. After her mother denied him visitation, her father reportedly absconded with his daughter twice. After her parents divorced, Rogers stayed with her grandparents while her mother wrote scripts for two years in Hollywood. Rogers was to remain close to her grandfather (much later, when she was a star in 1939, she bought him a home at 5115 Greenbush Avenue in Sherman Oaks, California so that he could be close to her while she was filming at the studios).[citation needed]
One of Rogers' young cousins, Helen, had a hard time pronouncing "Virginia", shortening it to "Ginga"; the nickname stuck. When "Ginga" was nine years old, her mother remarried, to John Logan Rogers. Ginger took the surname Rogers, although she was never legally adopted. They lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Her mother became a theater critic for a local newspaper, the Fort Worth Record. She attended but did not graduate from Fort Worth's Central High School. As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a schoolteacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased. Waiting for her mother in the wings of the Majestic Theatre, she began to sing and dance along with the performers on stage.[citation needed]
Vaudeville and Broadway[link]
Rogers' entertainment career was born one night when the traveling vaudeville act of Eddie Foy came to Fort Worth and needed a quick stand-in. She then entered and won a Charleston dance contest which allowed her to tour for six months, at one point in 1926 performing at an 18-month-old theater called The Craterian in Medford, Oregon. This theater honored her many years later by changing its name to the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.[2]
At 17, Rogers married Jack Culpepper, a singer/dancer/comedian/recording artist of the day who worked under the name Jack Pepper (according to Ginger's autobiography, she knew Culpepper when she was a child, as her cousin's boyfriend). They formed a short-lived vaudeville double act known as "Ginger and Pepper". The marriage was over within months, and she went back to touring with her mother. When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway theater debut in a musical called Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929.
Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, the musical play widely considered to have made stars of both her and Ethel Merman. Fred Astaire was hired to help the dancers with their choreography. Her appearance in Girl Crazy made her an overnight star at the age of 19. In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract.
Film career[link]
1929–1933[link]
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Rogers' first movie roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929—Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts.
Rogers would soon get herself out of the Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens—and move with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to California, she signed a three-picture deal with Pathé Exchange. She made feature films for Warner Bros., Monogram, and Fox in 1932 and was named one of fifteen "WAMPAS Baby Stars". She then made a significant breakthrough as "Anytime Annie" in the Warner Brothers film 42nd Street (1933). She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. ("Gold Diggers of 1933"), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio (1933), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.
1933–1939: Astaire and Rogers[link]
Rogers was most famous for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) (The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) was produced later at MGM). They revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for them by the greatest popular song composers of the day.
Arlene Croce, Hannah Hyam and John Mueller all consider Rogers to have been Astaire's finest dance partner, principally because of her ability to combine dancing skills, natural beauty, and exceptional abilities as a dramatic actress and comedienne, thus truly complementing Astaire, a peerless dancer who sometimes struggled as an actor and was not considered classically handsome. The resulting song and dance partnership enjoyed a unique credibility in the eyes of audiences. Of the 33 partnered dances she performed with Astaire, Croce and Mueller have highlighted the infectious spontaneity of her performances in the comic numbers "I'll Be Hard to Handle" from Roberta (1935), "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet (1936) and "Pick Yourself Up" from Swing Time (1936). They also point to the use Astaire made of her remarkably flexible back in classic romantic dances such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from Roberta (1935), "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat (1935) and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" from Follow the Fleet (1936). For special praise, they have singled out her performance in "Waltz in Swing Time" from Swing Time (1936), which is generally considered to be the most virtuosic partnered routine ever committed to film by Astaire. She generally avoided solo dance performances: Astaire always included at least one virtuoso solo routine in each film, while Rogers performed only one: "Let Yourself Go" from Follow the Fleet (1936).
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Ginger with Fred Astaire in the film Roberta (1935).
Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year. In 1986, shortly before his death, Astaire remarked, "All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No no, Ginger never cried".[citation needed] John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as follows: "Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began...the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable".[citation needed] According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in Flying Down to Rio, "Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong."[citation needed] Astaire also had this to say to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art: "Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success."[citation needed]
Rogers also introduced some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry Warren and Al Dubin's "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" from Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), "Music Makes Me" from Flying Down to Rio (1933), "The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee (1934), Irving Berlin's "Let Yourself Go" from Follow the Fleet (1936), the Gershwins' "Embraceable You" from Girl Crazy and "They All Laughed (at Christopher Columbus)" from Shall We Dance (1937). Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" from Follow the Fleet (1936), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's "Pick Yourself Up" and "A Fine Romance" from Swing Time (1936) and the Gershwins' "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" from Shall We Dance (1937).
After 1939[link]
After 15 months apart and with RKO facing bankruptcy, the studio hired Fred and Ginger for another movie called Carefree, but it lost money. Next came The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, but the serious plot and tragic ending resulted in the worst box office receipts of any of their films. This was driven not by diminished popularity, but by the hard 1930s economic reality. The production costs of musicals, always significantly more costly than regular features, continued to increase at a much faster rate than admissions. Everyone agreed it was time to stop.
Both before and immediately after her dancing and acting partnership with Fred Astaire ended, Rogers starred in a number of successful dramas and comedies. Stage Door (1937) demonstrated her dramatic capacity, as the loquacious yet vulnerable girl next door, a tough minded, theatrical hopeful, opposite Katharine Hepburn. In Roxie Hart (1942), based on the same play which served as the template for the later musical Chicago, Ginger played a wise-cracking wife on trial for a murder her husband committed. In the neo-realist Primrose Path (1940), directed by Gregory La Cava, she played a prostitute's daughter trying to avoid the fate of her mother. Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl (1939), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother (1939), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor (1942), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period. This film featured a performance by Rogers's own real mother, Lela, playing her film mother.
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In 1941, Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 1940's Kitty Foyle. She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period. Becoming a free agent, she made hugely successful films with other studios in the mid-'40s, including Tender Comrade (1943), Lady in the Dark (1944), and Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), and became the highest-paid performer in Hollywood. However, by the end of the decade, her film career had peaked. Arthur Freed reunited her with Fred Astaire in The Barkleys of Broadway in 1949.
Rogers' film career entered a period of gradual decline in the 1950s, as parts for older actresses became more difficult to obtain, but she still scored with some solid movies. She starred in Storm Warning (1950) with Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Brothers, and in Monkey Business (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks. In the same year, she also starred in We're Not Married!, also featuring Marilyn Monroe, and in Dreamboat. She played the female lead in Tight Spot (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. After a series of unremarkable films she scored with a great popular success, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running Hello, Dolly! on Broadway in 1965.[citation needed]
In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire: she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they were co-presenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance. In 1969, she had the lead role in another long-running popular production of Mame, from the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End of London, arriving for the role on the Liner QE2 from New York. Her docking there occasioned the maximum of pomp and ceremony at Southampton. She became the highest paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time. The production ran for 14 months and featured a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II. The Kennedy Center honored Ginger Rogers in December 1992. This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips (all previous rights holders having donated broadcast rights gratis).[3]
From the 1950s onwards, Rogers would make occasional appearances on television. In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by Aaron Spelling; The Love Boat (1979), Glitter (1984), and Hotel (1987), which would be her final screen appearance as an actress.
Personal life[link]
Rogers was an only child, and maintained a close relationship with her mother throughout her life. Lela Rogers (1891–1977) was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, and movie producer. She was also one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, was a founder of the successful "Hollywood Playhouse" for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and was a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Mother and daughter had an extremely close professional relationship as well. Lela Rogers was credited with many pivotal contributions to her daughter's early successes in New York and in Hollywood, not to mention contract negotiations with RKO.
In her classic 1930s musicals with Astaire, Ginger Rogers, co-billed with him, was paid less than Fred, the creative force behind the dances, who also received 10% of the profits. But she was also paid less than many of the supporting "farceurs" billed beneath her, in spite of her much more central role in the films' great financial success. This was personally grating to her, and had effects upon her relationships at RKO, especially with director Mark Sandrich, whose purported disrespect of Rogers prompted a sharp letter of reprimand from producer Pandro Berman, which she deemed important enough to publish in her autobiography. Rogers fought hard for her contract and salary rights, and for better films and scripts.
Rogers' first marriage was at age 17 to her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper) on March 29, 1929. They divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. In 1934 she married actor Lew Ayres (1908–1996). They divorced seven years later. Rogers sued Sylvia of Hollywood for $100K for defamation. Sylvia, Hollywood's fitness guru and radio personality, had claimed that Rogers was on Sylvia's radio show when, in fact, she was not.[4] In 1943, Rogers married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine. Upon his return from World War II, Briggs showed no interest in continuing his incipient Hollywood career. They divorced in 1949. In 1953 she married Jacques Bergerac, a French actor 16 years her junior, whom she met on a trip to Paris. A lawyer in France, he came to Hollywood with her and became an actor. They divorced in 1957. Her fifth and final husband was director and producer William Marshall. They married in 1961, and divorced in 1971, after his bouts with alcohol, and the financial collapse of their joint film production company in Jamaica.
Rogers was lifelong friends with actresses Lucille Ball and Bette Davis. Rogers starred in one of the earliest films co-directed and co-scripted by a woman, Wanda Tuchock's Finishing School (1934). In 1985, Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct by directing the musical Babes in Arms off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, when she was 74 years old. She appeared with Ball in an episode of Here's Lucy on November 22, 1971, in which Rogers danced the Charleston for the first time in many years. Rogers maintained a close friendship with her cousin, writer/socialite Phyllis Fraser, but was not Rita Hayworth's natural cousin as has been reported. Hayworth's maternal uncle, Vinton Hayworth, was married to Rogers's maternal aunt, Jean Owens.
Rogers was a lifelong conservative and a member of the Republican Party.[5] Along with her mother, and such contemporaries as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Rogers was a founding member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Hollywood anti-Communist group.
She was raised a Christian Scientist, and remained a lifelong adherent.[6] She devoted a great deal of time in her autobiography to the importance of her faith throughout her career.
In 1977, Rogers's mother died. Rogers remained at the 4-Rs (Rogers's Rogue River Ranch) until 1990, when she sold the property and moved to nearby Medford, Oregon. Her last public appearance was on March 18, 1995 when she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award. For many years, Rogers regularly supported, and held in-person presentations, at the Craterian Theater, in Medford, Oregon, where she had performed in 1926 as a vaudevillian. The theater was comprehensively restored in 1997, and posthumously renamed in her honor, as the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater.
Death[link]
Rogers would spend winters in Rancho Mirage and summers in Medford. She continued making public appearances (mostly at award shows) until suffering a stroke that left her relying on the use of a wheelchair due to being partially paralyzed. Rogers died at her Rancho Mirage home on April 25, 1995, at the age of 83. An autopsy was performed in compliance with California law that required post-mortem examination on anyone who had not received medical treatment within 40 days of death (despite her stroke, Rogers never saw a doctor or went to a hospital) and concluded that the cause of death was a heart attack.[7] She was cremated and her ashes interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, with her mother's remains.
Portrayals of Rogers[link]
No films have been made about Ginger Rogers, possibly because her best-known co-star Fred Astaire stipulated in his will that no film representations of him were ever to be made.
- Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the Lucy in the Skies section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968).
- Rogers' image is one of many famous women's images of the 1930s and 40s featured on the bedroom wall in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, a gallery of magazine cuttings pasted on the wall created by Anne and her sister Margot while hiding from the Nazis. When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass. Rogers' image is one of the larger and more prominent, which clearly indicates her global and mass appeal amongst the youth of the time.
- A musical about the life of Rogers, entitled Backwards in High Heels, premiered in Florida in early 2007.[8][9]
- Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak (1942, by Lela E. Rogers), in which "the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person." It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941–1947 that featured a film actress as heroine.[10]
Filmography[link]
Features[link]
| Title | Date | Director | Co-Starring | Notes |
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| Young Man of Manhattan | 1930 | Monta Bell | Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster | The line, "Cigarette me, big boy" became a popular catchphrase during the 1930s after audiences heard Ginger Rogers repeat it throughout the movie. |
| Queen High | 1930 | Fred Newmeyer | ||
| The Sap from Syracuse | 1930 | A. Edward Sutherland | Jack Oakie | |
| Follow the Leader | 1930 | Norman Taurog | ||
| Honor Among Lovers | 1931 | Dorothy Arzner | Claudette Colbert | |
| The Tip Off | 1931 | Albert Rogell | ||
| Suicide Fleet | 1931 | Albert Rogell | ||
| Carnival Boat | 1932 | Albert Rogell | ||
| The Tenderfoot | 1932 | Ray Enright | Joe E. Brown | |
| The Thirteenth Guest | 1932 | Albert Ray | Lyle Talbot | |
| Hat Check Girl | 1932 | Sidney Lanfield | Sidney Lanfield was the most frequent director on the Addams Family 1960s television show. | |
| You Said a Mouthful | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon | Joe E. Brown | |
| 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell | |
| Broadway Bad | 1933 | Sidney Lanfield | ||
| Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell | |
| Professional Sweetheart | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Norman Foster | |
| A Shriek in the Night | 1933 | Albert Ray | Lyle Talbot | |
| Don't Bet on Love | 1933 | Murray Roth | Lew Ayres | Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres were married for seven years following this film. |
| Sitting Pretty | 1933 | Harry Joe Brown | Jack Oakie, Jack Haley | |
| Flying Down to Rio | 1933 | Thornton Freeland | Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Fred Astaire | The first of the Astaire-Rogers pairing. This is the only movie where Rogers is billed above Astaire. |
| Chance at Heaven | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Joel McCrea | |
| Rafter Romance | 1934 | William A. Seiter | Norman Foster | |
| Finishing School | 1934 | Wanda Tuchock and George Nicholas | Beulah Bondi | |
| Twenty Million Sweethearts | 1934 | Ray Enright | Dick Powell | |
| Change of Heart | 1934 | John G. Blystone | Shirley Temple | |
| Upperworld | 1934 | Roy Del Ruth | Mary Astor | |
| The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | |
| Romance in Manhattan | 1934 | Stephen Roberts | ||
| Roberta | 1935 | William A. Seiter | Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott | Lucille Ball has an uncredited appearance as a model. She had lines deleted since her character was supposed to be a French model and she could not perfect the accent. |
| Star of Midnight | 1935 | Stephen Roberts | William Powell | |
| Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball | |
| In Person | 1935 | William A. Seiter | George Brent | |
| Follow the Fleet | 1936 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott, Lucille Ball | |
| Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | Fred Astaire | |
| Shall We Dance | 1937 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire | |
| Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Lucille Ball | |
| Having Wonderful Time | 1938 | Alfred Santell | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lucille Ball, Red Skelton | This used much of the same cast as Stage Door. |
| Vivacious Lady | 1938 | George Stevens | James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel | |
| Carefree | 1938 | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Jack Carson, Hattie McDaniel | |
| The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | 1939 | H. C. Potter | Fred Astaire | |
| Bachelor Mother | 1939 | Garson Kanin | David Niven, Charles Coburn | |
| Fifth Avenue Girl | 1939 | Gregory La Cava | ||
| Primrose Path | 1940 | Gregory La Cava | Joel McCrea | |
| Lucky Partners | 1940 | Lewis Milestone | Ronald Colman, Jack Carson | |
| Kitty Foyle | 1940 | Sam Wood | Dennis Morgan, James Craig | Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress the first year that the Academy was not announcing the winners before the ceremony. She beat Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Martha Scott, and former co-star Katharine Hepburn. |
| Tom, Dick, and Harry | 1942 | Garson Kanin | Burgess Meredith | |
| Roxie Hart | 1942 | William A. Wellman | Adolphe Menjou | |
| Tales of Manhattan | 1942 | Julien Duvivier | Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Rita Hayworth, Gail Patrick | |
| The Major and the Minor | 1942 | Billy Wilder | Ray Milland | Rogers campaigned hard for Billy Wilder and as a result this became his debut film. This remains one of Rogers' favorite movies. Near the end of the movie her real life mother, Lela Rogers, played her character's mother. |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | Leo McCarey | Cary Grant | |
| Tender Comrade | 1943 | Edward Dmytryk | ||
| Lady in the Dark | 1944 | Mitchell Leisen | Ray Milland, Warner Baxter | |
| I'll Be Seeing You | 1944 | William Dieterle | Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple | |
| Week-End at the Waldorf | 1945 | Robert Z. Leonard | Lana Turner | Remake of the 1932 film Grand Hotel portraying the ballerina who was first played on screen by Greta Garbo. |
| Heartbeat | 1946 | Sam Wood | Adolphe Menjou | |
| Magnificent Doll | 1946 | Frank Borzage | David Niven, Burgess Meredith | |
| It Had to Be You | 1947 | Don Hartman and Rudolph Mate | Cornel Wilde | |
| The Barkleys of Broadway | 1949 | Charles Walters | Fred Astaire | Originally Rogers' role was meant for Judy Garland who had recently starred in the successful musical Easter Parade with Astaire. However she had to drop out of the project due to health issues and Rogers was sought as a last minute replacement. This is the only Astaire-Rogers film not released by RKO and the only one filmed in color (although the "I Used to Be Color Blind" number in Carefree was originally filmed in Technicolor). |
| Perfect Strangers | 1950 | Bretaigne Windust | Dennis Morgan | |
| Storm Warning | 1951 | Stuart Heisler | Ronald Reagen, Doris Day | |
| The Groom Wore Spurs | 1951 | Richard Whorf | Jack Carson | |
| We're Not Married | 1952 | Edmund Goulding | Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Victor Moore | |
| Monkey Business | 1952 | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn | |
| Dreamboat | 1952 | Claude Binyon | ||
| Forever Female | 1953 | Irving Rapper | William Holden | |
| Black Widow | 1954 | Nunnally Johnson | Gene Tierney | |
| Twist of Fate | 1954 | David Miller | This was released in Great Britain as "Beautiful Stranger." Rogers' husband at the time, Jacques Bergerac, appeared in the film. | |
| Tight Spot | 1955 | Phil Karlson | Edward G. Robinson | |
| The First Traveling Saleslady | 1956 | Arthur Lubin | Clint Eastwood | |
| Teenage Rebel | 1956 | Edmund Goulding | ||
| Oh! Men, Oh! Women | 1957 | Nunnally Johnson | David Niven | |
| The Confession | 1965 | William Dieterle | Ray Milland | Also known as "Quick, Let's Get Married." |
| Harlow (Magna film) | 1965 | Alex Segal | Carol Lynley | Rogers' last film. |
Short subjects[link]
- A Day of a Man of Affairs (1929)
- A Night in a Dormitory (1930)
- Campus Sweethearts (1930)
- Office Blues (1930)
- Hollywood on Parade (1932)
- Screen Snapshots (1932)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
- Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
- Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936)
- Show Business at War (1943)
- Battle Stations (Narrator, 1944)
- Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (1950)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (1954)
Television[link]
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson, as Kay Neilson in "The Tender Shoot" (October 18, 1959)
- What's My Line? (1954, 1957, 1963)
- The Jack Benny Program (1957)
- The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1959)
- Cinderella (1965)
- Here's Lucy (1971)(episode 4.11)
- The Love Boat (1979) (episodes 3.10 and 3.11)
- Glitter (1984) (episode 1.3)
- Hotel (1987) (episode 5.1) (final screen role)
References[link]
- ^ Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth ... By Susan Ware
- ^ "Facility History". Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. http://craterian.org/facility.html. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ Wharton, Dennis (1992-12-18). "Astaire footage withheld from Honors". Variety (magazine). http://www.variety.com/article/VR102225?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
- ^ Interview Suit Begun By Actress: Screen Player Asks Damages, Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1934.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Adherent of Christian Science
- ^ http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/r/Ginger%20Rogers/ginger_rogers.htm
- ^ Playbill News: "Sold Out Florida Stage Run of Ginger Rogers Musical Gets Added Performances"
- ^ "Backwards in High Heels: The Ginger Musical"
- ^ Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls, accessed September 10, 2009
Bibliography[link]
- Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.
- Arlene Croce: The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book, Galahad Books 1974, ISBN 0-88365-099-1
- Jocelyn Faris: Ginger Rogers – a Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 1994, ISBN 0-313-29177-2
- Hannah Hyam: Fred and Ginger – The Astaire-Rogers Partnership 1934–1938, Pen Press Publications, Brighton, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905621-96-5
- John Mueller: Astaire Dancing – The Musical Films of Fred Astaire, Knopf 1985, ISBN 0-394-51654-0
- Ginger Rogers: Ginger My Story, New York: Harper Collins, 1991
External links[link]
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- Ginger Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
- Ginger Rogers at the TCM Movie Database
- Ginger Rogers at the Internet Broadway Database
- Ginger Rogers – Appreciations
- Backwards in High Heels: The Ginger Musical
- Ginger Rogers biography from Reel Classics
- John Mueller's 1991 New York Times review of Ginger: My Story
- Photographs and literature
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| Name | Rogers, Ginger |
| Alternative names | Macmath, Virginia Katherine |
| Short description | Actress |
| Date of birth | July 16, 1911 |
| Place of birth | Independence, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date of death | April 25, 1995 |
| Place of death | Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
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| Judy Garland | |
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 c. 1940 |
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| Born | Frances Ethel Gumm (1922-06-10)June 10, 1922 Grand Rapids, Minnesota |
| Died | June 22, 1969(1969-06-22) (aged 47) Chelsea, London, England |
| Cause of death | Barbiturate overdose |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Judy Garland |
| Occupation | Singer, actress, vaudevillian |
| Years active | 1924-1969 as a singer 1929-1967 as an actress |
| Spouse | David Rose (m. 1941-1944; divorced) Vincente Minnelli (m. 1945-1951; divorced) Sidney Luft (m. 1952-1965; divorced) Mark Herron (m. 1965-1967; divorced) Mickey Deans (m. 1969, her death) |
| Children |
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| Awards | List of awards and honours |
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.[1] Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
Despite her professional triumphs, Garland battled personal problems throughout her life. Insecure about her appearance, her feelings were compounded by film executives who told her she was unattractive and manipulated her on-screen physical appearance. She was plagued by financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. She married five times, with her first four marriages ending in divorce. She had a long struggle with alcohol and drug use during most of her career, dying of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 47, leaving children Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft.
In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema.[2]
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Early life[link]
Born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Garland was the youngest child of Ethel Marion (née Milne; November 17, 1893–January 5, 1953) and Francis Avent "Frank" Gumm (March 20, 1886–November 17, 1935). Her parents were vaudevillians who settled in Grand Rapids to run a movie theatre that featured vaudeville acts.
Garland's ancestry on both sides of her family can be traced back to the early colonial days of the United States. Her father was descended from the Marable family of Virginia, her grandfather from a Milne ancestry from Aberdeen, Scotland[3] and her maternal grandmother from a Patrick Fitzpatrick, who emigrated to America in the 1770s from Smithtown, County Meath, Ireland.[4]
Named after both her parents and baptized at a local Episcopal church, "Baby" (as she was called by her parents and sisters) shared her family's flair for song and dance. Her first appearance came at the age of two-and-a-half when she joined her two older sisters, Mary Jane "Suzy/Suzanne" Gumm (1915–1964) and Dorothy Virginia "Jimmie" Gumm (1917–1977), on the stage of her father's movie theater during a Christmas show and sang a chorus of "Jingle Bells".[5] Accompanied by their mother on piano, The Gumm Sisters performed there for the next few years.
Following rumors that Frank Gumm had made sexual advances toward male ushers, the family relocated to Lancaster, California in June 1926.[6] Frank purchased and operated another theater in Lancaster, and Ethel, acting as their manager, began working to get her daughters into motion pictures.
Early career[link]
The Gumm Sisters[link]
In 1928, The Gumm Sisters enrolled in a dance school run by Ethel Meglin, proprietress of the Meglin Kiddies dance troupe. They appeared with the troupe at its annual Christmas show.[7] It was through the Meglin Kiddies that they made their film debut, in a 1929 short subject called The Big Revue. This was followed by appearances in two Vitaphone shorts the following year, A Holiday in Storyland (featuring Garland's first on-screen solo) and The Wedding of Jack and Jill. They next appeared together in Bubbles. Their final on-screen appearance came in 1935, in another short entitled La Fiesta de Santa Barbara.[8]
In 1934, the trio, who by then had been touring the vaudeville circuit as "The Gumm Sisters" for many years, performed in Chicago at the Oriental Theater with George Jessel. He encouraged the group to choose a more appealing name after "Gumm" was met with laughter from the audience. According to theatrical legend, their act was once erroneously billed at a Chicago theater as "The Glum Sisters".[9]
Several stories persist regarding the origin of the name "Garland". One is that it was originated by Jessel after Carole Lombard's character Lily Garland in the film Twentieth Century which was then playing at the Oriental; another is that the girls chose the surname after drama critic Robert Garland.[10] Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft, stated that her mother selected the name when Jessel announced that the trio "looked prettier than a garland of flowers".[11] Another variation surfaced when he was a guest on Garland's television show in 1963. He claimed that he had sent actress Judith Anderson a telegram containing the word "garland," and it stuck in his mind.[12]
By late 1934 the Gumm Sisters had changed their name to the Garland Sisters.[13] Frances changed her name to "Judy" soon after, inspired by a popular Hoagy Carmichael song.[14] By August 1935 they were broken up when Suzanne Garland flew to Reno, Nevada and married musician Lee Kahn, a member of the Jimmy Davis orchestra playing at Cal-Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe.[15]
Signed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[link]
In 1935, Garland was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, supposedly without a screen test, though she had made a test for the studio several months earlier. It did not know what to do with her, as at age 13 she was older than the traditional child star but too young for adult roles. Her physical appearance created a dilemma for MGM. At only 4 feet 11.5 inches (151.1 cm), her "nice" or "girl next door" looks did not exemplify the more glamorous persona required of leading ladies of the time. She was self-conscious and anxious about her appearance. "'Judy went to school at Metro with Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, real beauties,' said Charles Walters, who directed her in a number of films. 'Judy was the big money-maker at the time, a big success, but she was the ugly duckling ...I think it had a very damaging effect on her emotionally for a long time. I think it lasted forever, really.'"[16] Her insecurity was exacerbated by the attitude of studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who referred to her as his "little hunchback".[17] During her early years at the studio, she was photographed and dressed in plain garments or frilly juvenile gowns and costumes to match the "girl next door" image that was created for her. She was made to wear removable caps on her teeth and rubberized disks to reshape her nose.[18]
She performed at various studio functions and was eventually cast opposite Deanna Durbin in the musical short Every Sunday. The film contrasted her alto vocal range[19] and swing style with Durbin's operatic soprano and served as an extended screen test for the pair, as studio executives were questioning the wisdom of having two girl singers on the roster.[20] Mayer finally decided to keep both actresses, but by that time Durbin's option had lapsed and she was signed by Universal Studios.
On November 16, 1935, in the midst of preparing for a radio performance on the Shell Chateau Hour, Garland learned that her father, who had been hospitalized with meningitis, had taken a turn for the worse. Frank Gumm died the following morning, on November 17, leaving her devastated. Her song for the Shell Chateau Hour was her first professional rendition of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", a song which would become a standard in many of her concerts.[21]
Garland next came to the attention of studio executives by singing a special arrangement of "You Made Me Love You" to Clark Gable at a birthday party held by the studio for the actor; her rendition was so well regarded that she performed the song in the all-star extravaganza Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), singing to a photograph of him.[22]
MGM hit on a winning formula when it paired Garland with Mickey Rooney in a string of "backyard musicals".[23] The duo first appeared together in the 1937 B movie Thoroughbreds Don't Cry. They became a sensation and teamed up again in Love Finds Andy Hardy. She would eventually star with him in nine films.
To keep up with the frantic pace of making one film after another, Garland, Rooney, and other young performers were constantly given amphetamines, as well as barbiturates to take before going to bed.[24] For Garland, this regular dose of drugs led to addiction and a lifelong struggle and contributed to her eventual demise. She later resented the hectic schedule and felt that her youth had been stolen from her by MGM. Despite successful film and recording careers, awards, critical praise and her ability to fill concert halls worldwide, she was plagued throughout her life with self-doubt and required constant reassurance that she was talented and attractive.[25]
[edit] The Wizard of Oz
In 1938, aged 16, she was cast as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the children's book by L. Frank Baum. In this film, she sang the song for which she would forever be identified, "Over the Rainbow". She was initially outfitted in a blonde wig for the part, but Freed and LeRoy decided against it shortly into filming. Her blue gingham dress was chosen for its blurring effect on her figure.[26]
Shooting commenced on October 13, 1938,[27] and was completed on March 16, 1939,[28] with a final cost of more than US$2 million.[29] With the conclusion of filming, MGM kept Garland busy with promotional tours and the shooting of Babes in Arms. She and Rooney were sent on a cross-country promotional tour, culminating in the August 17 New York City premiere at the Capitol Theater, which included a five-show-a-day appearance schedule for the two stars.[30]
The Wizard of Oz was a tremendous critical success, though its high budget and promotions costs of an estimated $4 million coupled with the lower revenue generated by children's tickets meant that the film did not make a profit until it was re-released in the 1940s.[31] At the 1940 Academy Awards ceremony, Garland received an Academy Juvenile Award for her performances in 1939, including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms.[32] Following this recognition, she became one of MGM's most bankable stars.
Stardom as an adult[link]
In 1940, she starred in three films: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Strike Up the Band, and Little Nellie Kelly. In the latter, she played her first adult role, a dual role of both mother and daughter. Little Nellie Kelly was purchased from George M. Cohan as a vehicle for her to display both her audience appeal and her physical appearance. The role was a challenge for her, requiring the use of an accent, her first adult kiss, and the only death scene of her career.[33] The success of these three films, and a further three films in 1941, secured her position at MGM as a major property.
During this time Garland experienced her first serious adult romances. The first was with the band leader Artie Shaw. She was deeply devoted to him and was devastated in early 1940 when he eloped with Lana Turner.[34] Garland began a relationship with musician David Rose, and, on her 18th birthday, he gave her an engagement ring. The studio intervened because he was still married at the time to the actress and singer Martha Raye. They agreed to wait a year to allow for his divorce from her to become final, and were wed on July 27, 1941.[35] Garland, who had aborted her pregnancy by him in 1942, agreed to a trial separation in January 1943, and they divorced in 1944.[36] She was noticeably thinner in her next film, For Me and My Gal, alongside Gene Kelly in his first screen appearance. She was top billed over the credits for the first time and effectively made the transition from teenage star to adult actress.
At the age of 21, she was given the "glamour treatment" in Presenting Lily Mars, in which she was dressed in "grown-up" gowns. Her lightened hair was also pulled up in a stylish fashion. However, no matter how glamorous or beautiful she appeared on screen or in photographs, she was never confident in her appearance and never escaped the "girl next door" image that had been created for her.[37]
One of Garland's most successful films for MGM was Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), in which she introduced three standards: "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Vincente Minnelli was assigned to direct and he requested that makeup artist Dorothy Ponedel be assigned to Garland. Ponedel refined her appearance in several ways, including extending and reshaping her eyebrows, changing her hairline, modifying her lip line and removing her nose discs. She appreciated the results so much that Ponedel was written into her contract for all her remaining pictures at MGM.
During the filming of Meet Me in St. Louis, after some initial conflict between them, Garland and Minnelli entered a relationship. They were married June 15, 1945,[38] and on March 12, 1946, daughter Liza was born.[39] In 1951, they divorced.[40]
The Clock (1945) was her first straight dramatic film, opposite Robert Walker. Though the film was critically praised and earned a profit, most movie fans expected her to sing. It would be many years before she acted again in a non-singing dramatic role. Garland's other famous films of the 1940s include The Harvey Girls (1946), in which she introduced the Academy Award-winning song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", and The Pirate (1948).
Leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[link]
During filming for The Pirate in April 1947, Garland suffered a nervous breakdown and was placed in a private sanitarium.[41] She was able to complete filming, but in July she undertook her first suicide attempt, making minor cuts to her wrist with a broken glass.[42] During this period, she spent two weeks in treatment at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts[43] Following her work on The Pirate, she completed three more films for MGM: Easter Parade (in which she danced with Fred Astaire), In the Good Old Summertime, and her final film with MGM, Summer Stock.
Because of her mental condition, Garland was unable to complete a series of films. During the filming of The Barkleys of Broadway, she was taking prescription sleeping medication along with illicitly obtained pills containing morphine. It was around this time she also developed a serious problem with alcohol. These, in combination with migraine headaches, led her to miss several shooting days in a row. After being advised by her doctor that she would only be able to work in four-to-five-day increments with extended rest periods between, MGM executive Arthur Freed made the decision to suspend her on July 18, 1948. She was replaced by Ginger Rogers.[44]
Garland was cast in the film adaptation of Annie Get Your Gun in the title role of Annie Oakley. She was nervous at the prospect of taking on a role strongly identified with Ethel Merman, anxious about appearing in an unglamorous part after breaking from juvenile parts for several years and disturbed by her treatment at the hands of director Busby Berkeley. She began arriving late to the set and sometimes failed to appear. She was suspended from the picture on May 10, 1949, and was replaced by Betty Hutton.[45]
Garland was next cast in the film Royal Wedding with Fred Astaire after June Allyson became pregnant in 1950. She again failed to report to the set on multiple occasions and the studio suspended her contract on June 17, 1950. She was replaced by Jane Powell.[46] Reputable biographies following her death stated that after this latest dismissal, she slightly grazed her neck with a broken water glass, requiring only a Band-Aid, but at the time, the public was informed that a despondent Garland had slashed her throat.[47] "All I could see ahead was more confusion," Garland later said of this suicide attempt. "I wanted to black out the future as well as the past. I wanted to hurt myself and everyone who had hurt me."[48]
Later career[link]
Renewed stardom on the stage[link]
In October 1951, Garland opened in a vaudeville-style, two-a-day engagement at Broadway's newly refurbished Palace Theatre. Her 19-week engagement exceeded all previous records for the theater, and was described as "one of the greatest personal triumphs in show business history".[49] Garland was honored for her contribution to the revival of vaudeville with a Special Tony Award.[50]
In May 1952, at the height of Garland's comeback, her mother Ethel was featured in a Los Angeles Mirror story in which she revealed that while Garland was making a small fortune at the Palace, Ethel was working a desk job at Douglas Aircraft Company for $61 a week.[51] They had been estranged for years, with Garland characterizing her mother as "no good for anything except to create chaos and fear" and accusing her of mismanaging and misappropriating her salary from the earliest days of her career.[52] Garland's sister Virginia denied this, stating "Mama never took a dime from Judy."[53] On January 5, 1953, Ethel Gumm was found dead in the Douglas Aircraft parking lot. She was 59 years old.[54]
[edit] A Star Is Born
In 1954, Garland filmed a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born for Warner Bros. She and her third husband, Sid Luft (whom she had married in 1952) produced the film through their production company, Transcona Enterprises, while Warner Bros. supplied the funds, production facilities, and crew.[55] Directed by George Cukor and costarring James Mason, it was a large undertaking to which she initially fully dedicated herself.
As shooting progressed, however, she began making the same pleas of illness which she had so often made during her final films at MGM. Production delays led to cost overruns and angry confrontations with Warner Bros. head Jack Warner. Principal photography wrapped on March 17, 1954. At Luft's suggestion, the "Born in a Trunk" medley was filmed as a showcase for her and inserted over director Cukor's objections, who feared the additional length would lead to cuts in other areas. It was completed on July 29.[56]
Upon its September 29, 1954 world premiere, the film was met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim. Before release, it was edited at the instruction of Jack Warner; theater operators, concerned that they were losing money because they were only able to run the film for three or four shows per day instead of five or six, pressured the studio to make additional reductions. About 30 minutes of footage was cut, sparking outrage among critics and filmgoers. A Star is Born ended up losing money, and the secure financial position Garland had expected from the profits did not materialize.[57] Transcona made no more films with Warner.[58]
Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and, in the run-up to the 27th Academy Awards, was generally expected to win. She could not attend the ceremony because she had just given birth to her son, Joseph Luft, so a television crew was in her hospital room with cameras and wires to televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by Grace Kelly for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly could even reach the stage. Groucho Marx sent her a telegram after the awards ceremony, declaring her loss "the biggest robbery since Brinks". TIME magazine labeled her performance as "just about the greatest one-woman show in modern movie history".[59] Garland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role.[60]
Garland's films after A Star Is Born included Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (for which she was Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated for Best Supporting Actress), the animated feature Gay Purr-ee (1962), and A Child Is Waiting (1963) with Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring Dirk Bogarde.
Television, concerts, and Carnegie Hall[link]
Garland engaged Sid Luft as her manager the same year she divorced Minnelli.[61] He arranged a four-month concert tour of the United Kingdom, where she played to sold-out audiences throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland.[62] It included her first appearances at the renowned London Palladium, for a four-week stand in April.[63] Although some in the British press chided her before her opening for being "too plump",[64] she received rave reviews and the ovation was described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard.[65]
Garland and Luft were married on June 8, 1952, in Hollister, California.[66] Garland gave birth to Lorna Luft, herself a future actress and singer, on November 21, 1952, and to Joey Luft on March 29, 1955.[67]
Beginning in 1955, Garland appeared in a number of television specials. The first, the 1955 debut episode of Ford Star Jubilee, was the first full-scale color broadcast ever on CBS and was a ratings triumph, scoring a 34.8 Nielsen rating. She signed a three-year, $300,000 contract with the network. Only one additional special, a live concert edition of General Electric Theater, was broadcast in 1956 before the relationship between the Lufts and CBS broke down in a dispute over the planned format of upcoming specials.[68] In 1956, Garland performed four weeks at the New Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for a salary of $55,000 per week, making her the highest-paid entertainer to work in Las Vegas.[69] Despite a brief bout of laryngitis, her performances there were so successful that her run was extended an extra week.[70] Later that year she returned to the Palace Theatre, site of her two-a-day triumph. She opened in September, once again to rave reviews and popular acclaim.[71]
In November 1959 Garland was hospitalized, diagnosed with acute hepatitis.[72] Over the next few weeks several quarts of fluid were drained from her body until, still weak, she was released from the hospital in January 1960. She was told by doctors that she likely had five years or less to live, and that even if she did survive she would be a semi-invalid and would never sing again.[73] She initially felt "greatly relieved" at the diagnosis. "The pressure was off me for the first time in my life."[47] However, she recovered over the next several months and, in August of that year, returned to the stage of the Palladium. She felt so warmly embraced by the British that she announced her intention to move permanently to England.[74]
Her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history".[75] The two-record Judy at Carnegie Hall was certified gold, charting for 95 weeks on Billboard, including 13 weeks at number one. The album won four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the Year.[76] The album has never been out of print.
In 1961, Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, Freddie Fields, and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, entitled The Judy Garland Show, aired in 1962 and featured guests Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.[77] Following this success, CBS made a $24 million offer to her for a weekly television series of her own, also to be called The Judy Garland Show, which was deemed at the time in the press to be "the biggest talent deal in TV history". Although she had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series,[78] in the early 1960s she was in a financially precarious situation. She was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, having failed to pay taxes in 1951 and 1952, and the failure of A Star is Born meant that she received nothing from that investment.[79] A successful run on television was intended to secure her financial future.
Following a third special, Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet, Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963.[80] The Judy Garland Show was critically praised,[81][82] but for a variety of reasons (including being placed in the time slot opposite Bonanza on NBC) the show lasted only one season and was canceled in 1964 after 26 episodes. Despite its short run, the series was nominated for four Emmy Awards.[83] The demise of the series was personally and financially devastating for Garland.
Garland sued Luft for divorce in 1963, claiming "cruelty" as the grounds. She also asserted that he had repeatedly struck her while he was drinking and that he had attempted to take their children from her by force.[84] She had filed for divorce from Luft more than once previously, including as early as 1956, but had reconciled.[85]
Final years[link]
With the demise of her television series, Garland returned to the stage. Most notably, she performed at the London Palladium with her then 18-year-old daughter Liza Minnelli in November 1964. The concert, which was also filmed for British television network ITV, was one of her final appearances at the venue. She made guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Merv Griffin Show, on which she guest-hosted an episode.[86]
Garland was a lifelong Democrat and was active in both the Hollywood Democratic Committee and attended many of the Democratic National Conventions. In 1960 she was in attendance at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles with John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Lyndon B. Johnson.[87][88][89]
A 1964 tour of Australia was largely disastrous. Garland's first concert in Sydney, held in the Sydney Stadium because no concert hall could accommodate the crowds who wanted to see her, went well and received positive reviews. Her second performance, in Melbourne, started an hour late. The crowd of 7,000, angered by her tardiness and believing her to be drunk, booed and heckled her, and she fled the stage after just 45 minutes.[90] She later characterized the Melbourne crowd as "brutish".[52] A second concert in Sydney was uneventful but the Melbourne appearance garnered her significant bad press.[91] Some of that bad press was deflected by the announcement of a near fatal episode of pleurisy.
Garland's tour promoter Mark Herron announced that they had married aboard a freighter off the coast of Hong Kong; however, she was not legally divorced from Luft at the time the ceremony was performed.[92] It became final on May 19, 1965,[84] but she and Herron did not legally marry until November 14, 1965 and then separated six months later.[93]
In February 1967, Garland was cast as Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls for 20th Century Fox.[94] During the filming, she missed rehearsals and was fired in April, replaced by Susan Hayward.[95] Her prerecording of the song "I'll Plant My Own Tree" survived, along with her wardrobe tests.
Returning to the stage, Garland made her last appearances at New York's Palace Theatre in July, a 16-show tour, performing with her children Lorna and Joey Luft. She wore a sequined pantsuit on stage for this tour, which was part of the original wardrobe for her character in Valley of the Dolls.[96]
By early 1969, Garland's health had deteriorated. She performed in London at the Talk of the Town nightclub for a five-week run[97] and made her last concert appearance in Copenhagen during March 1969.[98] She married her fifth and final husband, musician Mickey Deans, at Chelsea Register Office, London, on March 15, 1969,[99] her divorce from Herron having been finalized on February 11.[100]
Death[link]
On June 22, 1969, Garland was found dead by Deans in the bathroom of their rented house in Chelsea, London. At the subsequent inquest, coroner Gavin Thursdon stated that the cause of death was "an incautious self-overdosage" of barbiturates; her blood contained the equivalent of ten 1.5-grain (97 mg) Seconal capsules.[101] Thursdon stressed that the overdose had been unintentional and that there was no evidence to suggest she had committed suicide. Her autopsy showed that there was no inflammation of her stomach lining and no drug residue there, which indicated that the drug had been ingested over a long period of time, rather than in one dose. Her death certificate stated that her death had been "accidental".[102] Even so, a British specialist who had attended her said she had been living on borrowed time due to cirrhosis of the liver.[103] She had turned 47 just twelve days prior to her death. Her Wizard of Oz costar Ray Bolger commented at her funeral, "She just plain wore out."
On June 26, Deans took Garland's remains to New York City, where an estimated 20,000 people lined up for hours at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan to pay their respects. On June 27, James Mason gave a eulogy at the funeral, an Episcopal service led by the Rev. Peter A. Delaney of Marylebone Church, London, who had officiated at her marriage to Deans.[104] The public and press were barred. She was interred in a crypt in the community mausoleum at Ferncliff Cemetery, in Hartsdale, New York.[105]
Legacy[link]
Garland's legacy as a performer and a personality has endured long after her death. The American Film Institute named her eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.[106] She has been the subject of over two dozen biographies since her death, including the well-received Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir by her daughter, Lorna Luft, whose memoir was later adapted into the television miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, which won Emmy Awards for the two actresses portraying her (Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis).[107]
Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.[108] Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[109] These include "Over the Rainbow", which was ranked as the number one movie song of all time in the American Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Songs" list. Four more Garland songs are featured on the list: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (#76), "Get Happy" (#61), "The Trolley Song" (#26), and "The Man That Got Away" (#11).[110] She has twice been honored on U.S. postage stamps, in 1989 (as Dorothy)[111] and again in 2006 (as Vicki Lester from A Star Is Born).[112]
Gay icon[link]
Main article: Judy Garland as gay icon
Garland always had a large base of fans in the gay community and has become a gay icon.[113] Reasons often given for her standing, especially among gay men, are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles mirrored those of gay men in America during the height of her fame and her value as a camp figure.[114] When asked about how she felt about having a large gay following, she responded, "I couldn't care less. I sing to people."[115]
Some have also suggested a connection between the date of Garland's death and funeral on June 27, 1969 and the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern Gay Liberation movement,[116][117] which started in the early hours of June 28.[116] However, in a 2009 interview gay historian David Carter stated that this connection is untrue, and based on a mocking reference to the riot by an anti-gay writer in the Village Voice the next day.[118]
Filmography and performances[link]
Main article: List of Judy Garland performances
Portrayals in fiction[link]
Main article: List of Judy Garland biographies
Garland has been portrayed on television by Andrea McArdle in Rainbow (1978), Tammy Blanchard (young Judy) and Judy Davis (older Judy) in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) and Elizabeth Karsell in James Dean (2001). Anne Hathaway is set to play Garland in a biopic titled Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland which is in production and is set to be released in either 2012 or 2013.
On stage, Garland is a character in the musical The Boy from Oz (1998), portrayed by Chrissy Amphlett in the original Australian production and by Isabel Keating on Broadway in 2003. End of the Rainbow (2005) featured Caroline O'Connor as Garland and Michael Cumpsty as Garland's pianist. Adrienne Barbeau played Garland in The Property Known as Garland (2006) and The Judy Monologues (2010) featured Kimberly Roberts as Garland. Garland was briefly mentioned in the biopic film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for the 1954 Academy Awards for A Star Is Born.
Discography[link]
Main article: Judy Garland discography
Awards[link]
Main article: List of awards and honors received by Judy Garland
Notes[link]
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- ^ as she told an audience on May 29, 1951 in Edinburgh
- ^ McClure, Rhonda (June 13, 2002). "Ancestry of Liza Minnelli". Genealogy.com. http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/liza-minnelli. Retrieved December 22, 2007.
- ^ Shipman p. 12
- ^ Clarke, p. 23
- ^ Clarke, pp. 29–30
- ^ Finch pp. 43–47, 76
- ^ Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead, The New York Times, June 23, 1969
- ^ "Judy: Beyond the Rainbow". Biography. January 1, 1999.
- ^ Luft, p. 26
- ^ "Episode 12". The Judy Garland Show. episode 12. season 1. November 1, 1963.
- ^ "Program of Comedy Due --- Eddie Conrad Will Head Ebell Vaudeville." Los Angeles Times. December 7, 1934. p. 15.
- ^ Edwards p. 27
- ^ "Nuptials Turn Trio to Duet --- Cupid Robs Radio Team --- Suzanne Garland Flies to Reno to Become Bride of Musician." Los Angeles Times. August 15, 1935. p. A3.
- ^ "Judy: Impressions of Garland". Omnibus. 1972. http://imdb.com/title/tt0813809.
- ^ Wayne, p. 204
- ^ Frank p. 73
- ^ "Judy Garland at the Hippodrome". Judy Garland – The Live Performances!. http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- ^ Clarke p. 73
- ^ Clarke p. 58
- ^ Edwards p. 47
- ^ "dOc DVD Review: Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms/Strike Up the Band/Babes on Broadway/Girl Crazy) (1939–1943)". Digitallyobsessed.com. April 1, 2009. http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=9718. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ "Judy Garland: By Myself". American Masters. February 25, 2004.
- ^ Clarke pp. 135–36
- ^ Finch pp. 134–35
- ^ Clarke p. 95
- ^ Clarke p. 100
- ^ Edwards p. 61
- ^ Clarke pp. 102–03
- ^ Clarke p. 104
- ^ Clarke p. 105
- ^ Juneau pp. 55–56
- ^ Frank pp. 148–49
- ^ Clarke p. 155
- ^ Clarke p. 211
- ^ Frank p 175
- ^ Hopper, Hedda (September 1954). "No More Tears for Judy". Woman's Home Companion.
- ^ Clarke p. 223
- ^ "Judy Garland Files Suit for Divorce". U.P.. February 22, 1952.
- ^ Edwards p. 108
- ^ Frank p. 231
- ^ "Judy Garland – Career Timeline | American Masters". PBS. July 7, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/judy-garland/career-timeline/601/. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Shipman p. 225
- ^ Clarke p. 255
- ^ Frank p. 271
- ^ a b Alexander, Shana (June 2, 1961). "Judy's New Rainbow". Life.
- ^ Hyams, Joe (January 1957). "Crack-Up". Photoplay.
- ^ Garver, Jack (February 24, 1952). "Judy Garland Ends Triumphant Vaudeville Run". UPI.
- ^ "Judy Garland". American Theatre Wing. http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
- ^ Clarke p. 311
- ^ a b Garland, Judy (August 1967). "The Plot Against Judy Garland". Ladies' Home Journal.
- ^ Shearer, Lloyd (October 4, 1964). "Judy Garland's Sister: The Happy One in the Family". Parade.
- ^ Clarke p. 309
- ^ Clarke, p. 308
- ^ Clarke p. 319
- ^ Clarke p. 325
- ^ Juneau p. 126
- ^ Clarke p. 326
- ^ "Judy Garland". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29377. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
- ^ Juneau p. 108
- ^ Frank p. 304
- ^ MacPherson, Virginia (April 10, 1951). "Judy Garland in Comeback with Palladium Contract". U.P..
- ^ Gerold Frank, Judy, page 326 (De Capo Press, 1999). ISBN 0-306-80894-3
- ^ "British Give Judy Garland Big Ovation". Associated Press. April 10, 1951.
- ^ Garver, Jack (June 12, 1952). "Judy Garland Married With Simple Ceremony". U.P..
- ^ Edwards p. 166
- ^ Sanders p. 24
- ^ "Judy Garland – About Judy Garland | American Masters". PBS. July 7, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/judy-garland/about-judy-garland/600/. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Frank pp. 420–21
- ^ "Judy Reigns in Palace as Queen of New York". UPI. October 31, 1952.
- ^ "Judy Garland Said To Have Hepatitis". UPI. November 26, 1959.
- ^ Clarke p. 347
- ^ Clarke p. 349
- ^ Cox, Gordon (May 28, 2006). "Rufus Over The Rainbow". Variety.
- ^ "Grammy Awards for Judy at Carnegie Hall". The Recording Academy. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=Judy+at+Carnegie+Hall&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ Sanders p. 29
- ^ Parsons, Louella (September 23, 1955). "TV Spectacular Gives New Rainbow to Judy". The Daily Review.
- ^ Edwards p. 175
- ^ Sanders p. 391
- ^ Sanders pp. 108–109
- ^ Lewis, Richard Warren (December 7, 1963). "The TV Troubles of Judy Garland". The Saturday Evening Post.
- ^ "Awards for The Judy Garland Show (1963)". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. http://www.emmys.tv/awards/awardsearch.php. Retrieved December 14, 2007.
- ^ a b "Judy Wins Divorce From Sid Luft". Wisconsin State Journal. May 20, 1965.
- ^ Irwin, Elson (November 17, 1968). "Judy Garland: Femme Fatale". Stars and Stripes.
- ^ DiOrio, p. 202
- ^ "John F. Kennedy Judy Garland, LBJ and Adlai Stevenson at 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZM76keZUk. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
- ^ "Adlai Stevenson , Sammy Davis Jr., and Judy Garland at Democratic Dinner - U1238885 - Rights Managed - Stock Photo - Corbis". Corbisimages.com. 1960-07-10. http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1238885/adlai-stevenson-sammy-davis-jr-and-judy. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000023/bio
- ^ Edwards p. 213
- ^ "Judy Garland Locks Self in Hotel Room". Stars and Stripes (UPI). May 24, 1964.
- ^ Edwards p. 214
- ^ Frank p. 556
- ^ Seaman, pp. 292–93
- ^ Seaman, p. 343
- ^ Shipman p. 494
- ^ Clarke p. 412
- ^ DiOrio, p. 204
- ^ Steiger, p. 88
- ^ Edwards p. 275
- ^ Clarke p. 422
- ^ "Judy Garland The Live Performances. The End of the Rainbow". http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/eotr.html. Retrieved February 1, 2008. citing United Press International article "Judy Took Too Many Pills", and containing a copy of Garland's death certificate.
- ^ Times Wire Services, "Judy Garland Believed Killed by Overdose", St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 1969. [1]
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- The Judy Room Celebrating the life and career of Judy Garland
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- Judy Garland: By Myself – American Masters special
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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1962 for Judy at Carnegie Hall |
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| Preceded by Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder |
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1997 |
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| Name | Garland, Judy |
| Alternative names | Gumm, Frances Ethel |
| Short description | American actress, singer |
| Date of birth | June 10, 1922 |
| Place of birth | Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Date of death | June 22, 1969 |
| Place of death | Chelsea, London, England, UK |
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| Born | Richard Ewing Powell (1904-11-14)November 14, 1904 Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 1963(1963-01-02) (aged 58) West Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, producer, director |
| Years active | 1932–63 |
| Spouse | Mildred Maund (1925-27) Joan Blondell (1936-44) June Allyson (1945-63) |
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man of darker projects.
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Biography[link]
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s.
Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros. was sufficiently impressed by Powell's singing and stage presence to offer him a film contract in 1932. He made his film debut as a singing bandleader in Blessed Event. He went on to star as a boyish crooner in movie musicals such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, Flirtation Walk, and On the Avenue, often appearing opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.
Powell desperately wanted to expand his range but Warner Bros. wouldn't allow him to do so, although they did (mis)cast him in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) as Lysander. This was to be Powell's only Shakespearean role and one he did not want to play, feeling that he was completely wrong for the part. Inscrutably, the young actor felt that he was too old to play romantic leading men anymore, and so he lobbied to play the lead in Double Indemnity. He lost out to Fred MacMurray, another Hollywood nice guy. MacMurray’s success, however, fueled Powell’s resolve to pursue projects with greater range.
In 1944, Powell's career changed forever when he was cast in the first of a series of films noir, as private detective Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was a big hit, and Powell had successfully reinvented himself as a dramatic actor. He was the first actor to play Marlowe — by name — in motion pictures. (Hollywood had previously adapted some Marlowe novels, but with the lead character changed.) Later, Powell was the first actor to play Marlowe on radio, in 1944 and 1945, and on television, in a 1954 episode of Climax! Powell also played the slightly-less hard-boiled detective Richard Rogue in the radio series "Rogue's Gallery", beginning in 1945.
In 1945, Dmytryk and Powell re-teamed to make the film Cornered, a gripping, post-WWII thriller that helped define the film noir style. He became a popular "tough guy" lead appearing in movies such as Johnny O'Clock and Cry Danger. But 1948 saw him step out of the brutish type when he starred in Pitfall, a film noir that sees a bored insurance company worker fall for an innocent but dangerous woman, played by Lizabeth Scott. Even when he appeared in lighter fare such as The Reformer and the Redhead and Susan Slept Here (1954), he never sang in his later roles. The latter, his final onscreen appearance in a feature film, did include a dance number with costar Debbie Reynolds.
From 1949–1953, Powell played the lead role in the National Broadcasting Company radio theater production Richard Diamond, Private Detective. His character in the 30-minute weekly was a likable private detective with a quick wit. Many episodes ended with Detective Diamond having an excuse to sing a little song to his date, showcasing Powell's vocal abilities. Many of the episodes were written by Blake Edwards. When Richard Diamond came to television in 1957, the lead role was portrayed by David Janssen, who did no singing in the series.
In the 1950s Powell produced and directed several B-movies and was one of the founders of Four Star Television, along with Charles Boyer, David Niven and Ida Lupino. He appeared in and supervised several shows for that company. Powell played the role of Willie Dante in Four Star Playhouse, in episodes entitled "Dante's Inferno" (1952), "The Squeeze" (1953), "The Hard Way" (1953), and "The House Always Wins" (1955). In 1961 Howard Duff, husband of Ida Lupino, assumed the Dante role in a short-lived NBC adventure series Dante, set at a San Francisco nightclub called "Dante's Inferno".
Powell guest-starred in numerous Four Star programs, including a 1958 appearance on the Duff-Lupino sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve. He appeared in 1961 on James Whitmore's legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC. In the episode "Everybody Versus Timmy Drayton", Powell played a colonel having problems with his son. He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956–1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963: after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season (as The Dick Powell Theater), with guest hosts.
Powell's film The Enemy Below (1957), based on the novel by Denys Rayner, won an Academy Award for special effects.
Powell also directed The Conqueror (1956), starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. The exterior scenes were filmed in St. George, Utah, downwind of U.S. above-ground atomic tests. The cast and crew totaled 220, and of that number, 91 had developed some form of cancer by 1981 and 46 had died of cancer by then, including Wayne. This cancer rate is about three times higher than one would expect in a group of this size and many have argued that radioactive fallout was the cause.[1]
Powell himself died from lymphoma at the age of fifty-eight on January 2, 1963, seven years after The Conqueror was made. His body was cremated and his remains were interred in the Columbarium of Honor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Dick Powell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6915 Hollywood Blvd.[2]
Personal life[link]
Dick Powell was married three times:
- Mildred Maund (1925–1927) — although most biographies say they were divorced in 1927, there are strong indications this is not true. They appear on the 1930 census in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is working in a theater, and they appear on a 1931 passenger list where they are returning from Havana, Cuba aboard the SS Oriente.
- actress Joan Blondell (married September 19, 1936, divorced 1944), with whom he had two children, Ellen and adopted son Norman
- actress/singer June Allyson (August 19, 1945, until his death), with whom he had two children, Pamela (adopted) and Richard Powell, Jr.
Powell's ranch-style house in Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles, was used as the setting for the television show Hart to Hart. Robert Wagner, the actor who portrayed Jonathan Hart in the series, was a close friend of Powell's. Dick Powell also was a major television player with his own production company, Four Star Television, owning several network shows.
Popular culture references[link]
Frank Tashlin's cartoon satire The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937) features a caricature of Powell, a bird named "Dick Fowl".
Filmography[link]
As actor[link]
Features[link]
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Short subjects[link]
- The Road Is Open Again (1933)
- Just Around the Corner (1933)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
- And She Learned About Dames (1934)
- Hollywood Newsreel (1934)
- A Dream Comes True (1935)
- Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
As director[link]
- Split Second (1953)
- The Conqueror (1956)
- You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
- The Enemy Below (1957)
- The Hunters (1958)
Notable recordings[link]
- "Dames"
- "Roses In December"
References[link]
- ^ ^ Olson, James (2002). Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 080186936
- ^ Hollywood Walk of Fame
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| Date of birth | November 14, 1904 |
| Place of birth | Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Date of death | January 2, 1963 |
| Place of death | West Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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