Four Star Television Productions

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1629334162

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Four Star Television Productions by Richard Irvin Pdf

The Big Valley, Burke's Law, The Rifleman, Zane Grey Theatre - these are just a few of the iconic series produced by Four Star Productions. This book covers all of the series produced and/or syndicated by Four Star from 1952 to 1989 as well as the many pilots the company made but were unable to sell. Topics include the first Western series created by legendary film director Sam Peckinpah, the first detective series with a female main character, the first, and perhaps only, ninety-minute game show pilot, and the one series that accounted for 70% of Four Star's revenue in 1969. Richard Irvin is the author of The Early Shows: A Reference Guide to Network and Syndicated Prime-Time Television Series from 1944 to 1949, Forgotten Laughs: An Episode Guide to 150 TV Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw, and Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a Series - all from Bear Manor Media.

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476628431

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Film Stars' Television Projects by Richard Irvin Pdf

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, this book profiles more than 50 actors--including Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd and Buster Keaton--and their unsuccessful pilots and short-lived series roles.

Author : Ronald Wayne Rodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195340242

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Tuning in by Ronald Wayne Rodman Pdf

This work looks at and listens to the first 50 years of American narrative television music as a unique art form. Drawing on music in a wide variety of television genres, author Ronald Rodman develops a new theory of television music to explain how it conveys meaning to American viewing audiences.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : MINN:31951D03524061G

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Impact of Imports and Exports on Employment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1578 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039505733

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education Pdf

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786494866

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George Burns Television Productions by Richard Irvin Pdf

An elementary school dropout, George Burns went on to become one of America's most beloved entertainers. This book covers a neglected part of his career--his work as a television producer. Burns was not only a behind-the-scenes producer, but also filled the role of producer in various comedies in which he starred. Though his forte was situation comedies, Burns' company, McCadden Productions, also produced dramatic anthology series and pilots, including a pilot considered to be a precursor to the popular TV series Mission: Impossible. This book focuses on Burns' wide variety of production efforts, and follows his involvement in television productions from his 1950 comedy series with his wife, Gracie Allen, through his participation in the fantasy sitcom Mister Ed, and finally to his last producer credit in 1981, I Love Her Anyway, a remake of The Burns and Allen Show.

Author : Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135205409

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The Revolution Wasn't Televised by Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin Pdf

Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Author : Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476644653

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What America Watched by Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser Pdf

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa. No matter what reasons are cited--the characters, the actors, the plots, the music--television shows that were beloved by audiences in their time remain fondly remembered. This study covers the classic period of popular television shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, focusing on how regular viewers interacted with television shows on a personal level. Bridging popular and scholarly approaches, this book discovers what America actually watched and why through documents, footage, visits to filming locations, newspapers, and magazine articles from the shows' eras. The book features extensive notes and bibliography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Television
ISBN : IOWA:31858045808205

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Television by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cable television
ISBN : PURD:32754077957474

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Copyright/cable Television by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice Pdf

Author : Jerry Osborne
Publisher : Jerry Osborne Enterprises
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780932117373

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Movie/TV Soundtracks and Original Cast Recordings Price and Reference Guide by Jerry Osborne Pdf

Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476633497

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Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018 by Vincent Terrace Pdf

Covering the years 1945–2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet, The Middle and Superman. Rarities include proposed shows starring Bela Lugosi, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert and Mae West, along with such casting curiosities as Mona Freeman, not Gale Storm, as Margie in My Little Margie, and John Larkin as Perry Mason long before Raymond Burr played the role.

Author : Paul Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336768

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Hollywood Independent by Paul Kerr Pdf

Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats.

Author : David K. Frasier
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476608075

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Suicide in the Entertainment Industry by David K. Frasier Pdf

This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases. It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person’s personal and professional background, method of suicide, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Juvenile courts
ISBN : MINN:31951002005963C

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Effects on young people of violence and crime portrayed on television by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf