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Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead. No television personality of the 1950s enjoyed more clout or fame than Godfrey until a famous on-the-air incident undermined his folksy image and triggered a gradual decline; the then-ubiquitous Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show through most of the decade, but by the early 1960s found himself reduced to hosting an occasional TV special.
Arguably the most prominent of the medium's early master commercial pitchmen, he was strongly identified with many of his many sponsors, especially Chesterfield cigarettes and Lipton Tea. After many years for Chesterfield (during which Godfrey came up with the idea and slogan "Buy 'em by the carton"), he severed the relationship during one of his television programs, when his doctors convinced him that his lung cancer was due to smoking. Subsequently, he became a prominent spokesman for anti-smoking education.
ARTHUR GODFREY TIME - 11/6/1958
Flying With Arthur Godfrey (1953)
Julis LaRosa fired
ARTHUR GODFREY AND FRIENDS
Arthur Godfrey Sings His Version of "For You" - 1953
''The Arthur Godfrey Show'' - 1959 episode
Flying With Arthur Godfrey 1953 (Part 1) Lockheed Super Constellation
What's My Line? - Arthur Godfrey (Mar 30, 1952)
CBS-Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts 1948-58
Arthur Godfrey - My Little Grass Shack
Too Fat Polka-Arthur Godfrey (Million Seller)
"Arthur Godfrey and his friends" - 28/January/1953
1948 HITS ARCHIVE: Slap 'Er Down Agin Paw - Arthur Godfrey
''The Arthur Godfrey Show''
Actors: Matt Servitto (actor), Marshall Efron (actor), Gerry Bamman (actor), Kevin Conway (actor), Michael Rispoli (actor), Frank Whaley (actor), Vincent Pastore (actor), Stephen Endelman (composer), Joseph R. Gannascoli (actor), Louis Guss (actor), Richard B. Shull (actor), Kelly Macdonald (actress), Steven Weisberg (miscellaneous crew), Jared Cauliffe (miscellaneous crew), Saul Stein (actor),
Plot: An unseen narrator looks back to 1956, on Staten Island, when Buddy, an Italian guy with big dreams, buys a house planning to live upstairs with his wife Estelle and run a bar downstairs. The first problem is Estelle's lack of confidence in Buddy. Then, Irish tenants upstairs refuse to move and won't pay rent; plus, the woman upstairs is about to have a baby. The next problem is the baby: once he's born, it's clear his father was Black. The Irish guy splits; Buddy evicts mother and child, then feels guilt and sets her up in a flat while she sorts out an adoption. Estelle's lack of faith, the Irish lass's spirit, Buddy's dream, racial prejudice, and the baby's fate play out.
Keywords: abandonment, ambition, baby, bar, childbirth, drunkenness, eviction, financial-crisis, friendship, guiltActors: Bruce Kirby (actor), P.J. Soles (actress), David Clennon (actor), Jessica Lange (actress), Ann Roth (costume designer), Charles Gross (composer), John Goodman (actor), Wilma Garscadden-Gahret (miscellaneous crew), Ed Harris (actor), Tony Frank (actor), Larry Kaplan (miscellaneous crew), Ann Wedgeworth (actress), Jerry Haynes (actor), Gary Basaraba (actor), Pamela Clay (actress),
Plot: Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee, her "Greatest Hits" album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame, the life, the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film tells the story of the passionate, fun-loving, soft-spoken, loud-living life of one of country music's - and one of popular music's - greatest singing stars. This film covers the years 1956 through 1963, from her rise to fame and the top of the charts through TB talent shows and country bars - through her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick and the demands of touring which would lead to the fatal plane crash.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, adultery, airplane-crash, airport, ambition, applause, audience, auditorium, baby