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Fairbanks ( /ˈfɛərbæŋks/) is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage. It is the principal city of the Fairbanks, Alaska, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.
According to 2010 census, the population of the city was 31,535, and the Fairbanks metropolitan area's population was 97,581. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the oldest of Alaska's current colleges.
Captain E. T. Barnette founded Fairbanks in August 1901 while headed to Tanacross (or Tanana Crossing, where the Valdez-Eagle trail crossed the Tanana River), where he intended to set up a trading post. The steamboat on which Barnette was a passenger, the Lavelle Young, ran aground while attempting to negotiate shallow water. Barnette, along with his party and supplies, were deposited along the banks of the Chena River 7 miles (11 km) upstream from its confluence with the Tanana River. The sight of smoke from the steamer's engines caught the attention of prospectors working in the hills to the north, most notably an Italian immigrant named Felice Pedroni (better known as Felix Pedro) and his partner Tom Gilmore. The two met Barnette where he disembarked and convinced him of the potential of the area. Barnette set up his trading post at the site, still intending to eventually make it to Tanacross.
Actors: Ismail Merchant (producer), James Ivory (director), Sean Young (actress), Anne Baxter (actress), Jenny Beavan (costume designer), Robert Powell (actor), Jane Buck (miscellaneous crew), Richard Robbins (composer), Sandra Seacat (actress), Jane Austen (writer), Jane Austen (writer), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (writer), Philip Haas (miscellaneous crew), Tim Choate (actor), Philip Lenkowsky (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Ulrich Beiger (actor), Peter Berling (actor), Peter Berling (writer), Peter Berling (producer), Gaspar 'Indio' González (actor), Roberto Leoni (director), Peter Berling (writer), Cris Huerta (actor), Cris Huerta (actor), Mark Damon (actor), Luis Induni (actor), Gisela Hahn (actress), Dieter Geissler (director), Dieter Geissler (actor), Dieter Geissler (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Sally Kirkland (actress), Nan Martin (actress), Samuel Fuller (actor), Don Keefer (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Mantan Moreland (actor), Julie Corman (producer), Allan Arbus (actor), Angela Elayne Gibbs (actress), Howard R. Cohen (writer), Frances Doel (miscellaneous crew), Tom Baker (actor), Jeane Manson (actress), William Joyce (actor), Clint Kimbrough (director),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Robert Fiske (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Raymond Brown (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Howard Davies (actor), Jack Egan (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Dick French (actor),
Plot: Ann Adams and William Hayward get married and she has a secretary's job in a law office, while finishing her schooling, and she soon makes junior partner and is just a brilliant lawyer. Meanwhile, hubby has a mechanized draftsman job and and acts like a mechanical person...except when he sings. He gets fed up with Ann turning their home into a bar-associate club where all the lawyers argue cases out of court, and he drops out and drops in at a nightclub and gets a job as a singer, and makes more money than when he was draftsman in an architect's office....and begins to imply that Ann should now be content with being a housewife, and Ann is having none of that. Later, she and her lawyer friends drop in at the club where William is singing, and she sees William getting vamped by one of the girl entertainers, gets sore and walks out..after insulting William. And..so they part and William gets an apartment and then a girl is found dead in his apartment, having accidentally strangled herself while drunk. But the law isn't buying that, either, and William goes on trial for his life...and Ann is his defense attorney. Ann's defense is that it was all her fault for being so career-minded and not providing William with the home-life he deserves...and the jury buys her 1938 sell-out. THey re-unite and Ann becomes Blondie Bumstead.
Keywords: 1930s, acquitted-of-murder, apartment, architect, b-movie, bartender, career, career-woman, cigarette-smoking, death