Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from June 6, 1950, to June 25, 1957, on NBC, and from October 2, 1957, to August 28, 1963, on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour. It finished in the Nielsen ratings at number 19 for the 1950–51 season and number 24 for 1951–52. The principal sponsor was Armstrong World Industries.
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts was an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958. Sponsored by Lipton Tea, it starred Arthur Godfrey, who was also hosting Arthur Godfrey and His Friends at the same time.
Dorothy Malone was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in The Big Sleep (1946). After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Barbara Whiting Smith was an American actress and singer.
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death.
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American drama television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950, until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its eight-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television. She worked in entertainment from the 1930s until shortly before her death. She appeared in hundreds of radio shows, motion pictures, short subjects, and television shows.
Lux Video Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1957. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama, primarily on the NBC Radio Network. He is famous for his roles in the Carlton E. Morse productions I Love a Mystery, in which he played Doc Long, and One Man's Family, spending 19 years portraying Clifford Barbour. In addition, Yarborough spent three years portraying Sgt. Ben Romero on Jack Webb's Dragnet.
Leslie John Edgley was an English-born American mystery fiction writer, radio dramatist screenwriter and playwright. Among the works for which he became known are the scripts for many episodes of Perry Mason, written as "Robert Bloomfield".
Nestor Caetano Paiva was an American stage, radio, film and television actor of Portuguese descent. He performed in over 400 motion pictures either as an extra, a bit player, or as a significant supporting character. He also appears in such roles in a variety of television series produced during the 1950s and early 1960s. Among his notable screen appearances is his recurring role as the innkeeper Teo Gonzales in Walt Disney's late 1950s televised Spanish Western series Zorro, as well as in its adapted theatrical release The Sign of Zorro (1958). Paiva also appears as the boat captain Lucas in the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and in that horror film's sequel Revenge of the Creature (1955).
Georgia Ellis was an American actress who is best known for her recurring role of Kitty in the Western radio drama Gunsmoke.
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour (1934–42).
The Paramount Television Network, Inc. was a venture by American film corporation Paramount Pictures to organize a television network in the late 1940s. The company-built television stations KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB in Chicago; it also invested $400,000 in the DuMont Television Network, which operated stations WABD in New York City, WTTG in Washington, D.C., and WDTV in Pittsburgh. Escalating disputes between Paramount and DuMont concerning breaches of contract, company control, and network competition erupted regularly between 1940 and 1956, culminating in the DuMont Network's dismantling. Television historian Timothy White called the clash between the two companies "one of the most unfortunate and dramatic episodes in the early history of the television industry."
Robert Kenneth Christy was an American television, film, and radio character actor.
Nancy Hadley is an American retired model and actress, who performed on stage and in television and films.
American Inventory is a thirty-minute weekly filmed educational series that first aired as a summer replacement Sunday nights during 1951 on NBC. It was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with NBC donating the broadcast time and facilities. The series incorporated panel discussions, lectures from experts, film of activities and events taking place out of the studio, and occasional in-studio dramatic scenes. It was an ambitious project, the first educational series produced and broadcast by a network.
Alma Drucilla Fleetwood Lawton was a Hollywood-based, Argentine-born actress who performed in films, on television, and on old-time radio.
Ramsay Hill was a British radio and film actor, and a former British and Egyptian army officer, whose military experience and multilingual proficiency helped make him a much-in-demand technical advisor and dialogue coach in Hollywood.
Florence Ravenel also known as Florence Ray, was an American stage, radio and film actress, perhaps best known for her work on the radio series The Court of Missing Heirs, and on the TV sitcom The Farmer's Daughter.
Others elected were: Clayton 'Bud' collyer, Eleanor Engle, Luis Van Rooten, Bill Baldwin, Fred D. Cole, Dick Stark and Nellie Booth, v.-p.'s; Wanda raney, secretary; Stanley Farrar, treasurer
With Ann Sothern, John Brown, Wally Maher, Bill Maretl [sic], Norman Field, Florence Lake, Paul McVey, Stanley Farrar and Ken Niles. Producer: E. J. Rosenberg. Director: Tony Sanford. Writers: Samuel Taylor and Bob Sloan. 30 Mins.: Thurs., 8:30 p.m. EVERSHARP. WABC-CBS, N.Y.
With Cary Grant, Paul Frees, Shepperd Menkin [sic], Hermand Waldman [sic], Maxine Marx, Fred Campbell, John T. Smith, Daws Butler, Berry Kroeger, Stanley Farrar; Lud Gluskin, conductor; Lucien Moroweck [sic], arranger; Frank Martin, announcer. Producer: E. J. Rosenberg. Director: Tony Sanford. Writers: Samuel Taylor and Bob Sloan. 30 Mins.: Thurs., 8:30 p.m. EVERSHARP. WABC-CBS, N.Y. [...] Grant was excellent in the long part of the harried prey, while Stanley Farrar, Shepard Menkin and Fred Campbell were effective in supporting parts.
Stanley Farrar inked for one of the supporting roles in 'The Ruggles,' which beams Thursdays on KECA-TV.
Stanley Farrar, the Mayor Terwilliger of radio's 'Great Gildersleeve' series, gets a role in Dr. James K. Friedrich's' Biblical drama, 'Day of Triumph,' now filming at Hal Roach studio.
Stanley Farrar celebrates his 25th year in show business with his current assignment in 20th-Fox's 'How to Be Very, Very Popular.'
With Walter Cronkite, Hayden Rorke, De Forest Kelley, Roy Linnert, Stanley Farrar, Vivi Janiss, Kam Tong, Edward Earle, others
Beach exteriors at Oxnard, Calif., completed on WB's 'Inside Daisy Clover,' the Pakula-Mulligan production has moved to the Conrad Hilton estate in Bel-Aire. [...] Joe Mell and Stanley Farrar added to cast of WB's 'Inside Daisy Clover,' now shooting.