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A Song Is Born | 1948
Six years after Howard Hawks made "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, Producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged Hawks to make a new, musical version of the story, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Kaye plays Professor Hobart Frisbee, a naïve music scholar who, together with six other musicologists, is studying a strange new phenomenon... Continue reading
The Greatest Movie Critics in history | Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert offer movie reviews and criticism, as well as other film-related features. Each film is given a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" by each, indicating whether it is a good or bad movie. The first episode aired September 13, 1986 and the final episode aired August 0, 2010.
The Turtles are an American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. The band had several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" in 1965. They scored their biggest and best-known hit in 1967 with the song "Happy Together". The band broke up in 1970. Kaylan and Volman later found long-lasting success as... Continue reading
Tom Cruise is an American Actor born on July 3, 1962, Syracuse, New York. He developed an interest in acting during high school. He started his career at the age of 19 in Endless Love 1981. After portraying supporting roles in Taps 1981 and The Outsiders 1983, his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after... Continue reading
Michael Kirk Douglas born September 25, 1944 is an American actor and producer. His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, in which he starred alongside Karl Malden. Douglas later said that Malden became a "mentor" and someone he "admired and loved deeply". In 1975 Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,... Continue reading
Costner born January 18, 1955 | Lynwood, California, and grew up in Compton, California. Costner landed a role as a suicide victim in the 1983 ensemble drama The Big Chill with Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum and others. What looked like his first big break ended in disappointment when all of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. "I rehearsed for a month with... Continue reading
"The Wonder Years" tracks life in the turbulent late 1960s and early '70s through the eyes of the increasingly less innocent Kevin Arnold. Narrated by an adult Kevin, the show follows him as he faces first love and the obstacles of life with best friend Paul.
Ironside a television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show revolved around a former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside Raymond Burr, a veteran of more than 20 years of police service who was forced to retire from the department after a sniper's bullet, to the spine, paralyzed him from the waist down, resulting in... Continue reading
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and therefore leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. It stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner... Continue reading
Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida born 4 July 1927 is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor. She was one of the highest profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. As her film career slowed, she established second careers as a photojournalist and sculptor. In the 1970s, she achieved a scoop by gaining access to... Continue reading
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