Classic mid-1980s commercial for Wendy's restaurants.
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Time For An Anna Neagle Movie
From RKO Radio Pictures in 1941, we bring you Anna Neagle starring in "Sunny," which was adapted from the same-named Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play. In this one, the star of a small, upscale circus meets by accident, the handsome scion of a wealthy family and falls in love. However, Sunny has to deal with the conflicts between the man's snooty family and her down-to-earth circus pals.
Anna is joined in the cast by Ray Bolger, John Carroll, and Edward Everett Horton.
Screenplay by Sig Herzig from the musical comedy "Sunny" with book and lyrics Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern.
Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox.
This was one of a handful of films that Anna, a major star in British cinema, worked on in Hollywood during the late 1930s and early 1940s. She collaborated with producer/director Herbert Wilcox on numerous films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
The twosome returned to England in the early 1940s and in 1943 were married (the marriage lasted nearly 34 years before his passing in 1977).
Anna is joined in the cast by Ray Bolger, John Carroll, and Edward Everett Horton.
Screenplay by Sig Herzig from the musical comedy "Sunny" with book and lyrics Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern.
Produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox.
This was one of a handful of films that Anna, a major star in British cinema, worked on in Hollywood during the late 1930s and early 1940s. She collaborated with producer/director Herbert Wilcox on numerous films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
The twosome returned to England in the early 1940s and in 1943 were married (the marriage lasted nearly 34 years before his passing in 1977).
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Art Modell, Influential NFL Owner Who Owned Cleveland Browns Then Moved Them To Baltimore, R. I. P.
Art Modell, the longtime owner of the NFL's Cleveland Browns, who moved that franchise in Baltimore in 1996 and was transformed from a hero to a villain in the Ohio city while becoming a hero in the Maryland metropolis (and won Super Bowl XXXV as Ravens' owner), passed away early on Thursday in Baltimore from natural causes at age 87.
Besides owning the Browns, beginning in 1962 when he bought the club, Mr. Modell became influential in the National Football League acquisations of its first lucrative television contracts and was actually for a couple of years in the late 1960s the league president.
However, because of failed negotiations with the city of Cleveland on either making major improvements in Municipal Stadium or building a new stadium for his team, Art packed up his gridiron club and moved it to Baltimore in 1996, thus becoming a hero in Baltimore (where the team was renamed the Ravens) while becoming a villain in Clevleland (in which a new Browns team came into existance as well as a new stadium in 1999, with the original club's records and heritage). The Ravens won Super Bowl XXV, manhandling the New York Giants in January 2001.
Art Modell sold the club in 2004.
Besides owning the Browns, beginning in 1962 when he bought the club, Mr. Modell became influential in the National Football League acquisations of its first lucrative television contracts and was actually for a couple of years in the late 1960s the league president.
However, because of failed negotiations with the city of Cleveland on either making major improvements in Municipal Stadium or building a new stadium for his team, Art packed up his gridiron club and moved it to Baltimore in 1996, thus becoming a hero in Baltimore (where the team was renamed the Ravens) while becoming a villain in Clevleland (in which a new Browns team came into existance as well as a new stadium in 1999, with the original club's records and heritage). The Ravens won Super Bowl XXV, manhandling the New York Giants in January 2001.
Art Modell sold the club in 2004.
Joe South, Composer Of "Games People Play," R. I. P.
Joe South, a singer and songwriter who wrote confrontional lyrics into bouncy hit late 1960s and early 1970s songs such as "Games People Play," "Walk A Mile In My Shoes," and "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden," passed away on Wednesday from an apparent heart attack at his Flowery Branch, Georgia home at the age of 72.
Mr. South, who had written a modeslty successul song "The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor" in 1958, went on to write the three ealirer-mentioned songs and had hit recordings with two of them.
"Rose Garden," Joe's best-known composition, became a huge country-and-western and crossover pop hit in 1971 for Lynn Anderson.
Mr. South, who had written a modeslty successul song "The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor" in 1958, went on to write the three ealirer-mentioned songs and had hit recordings with two of them.
"Rose Garden," Joe's best-known composition, became a huge country-and-western and crossover pop hit in 1971 for Lynn Anderson.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Time Now For Something Completely Different
From Young America Films, we present a 1955 film, "Cindy Goes To A Party."
A Centron Corporation Production.
Enjoy!
A Centron Corporation Production.
Enjoy!
Let's Go Exploring With Ol' Meriweather and Bill!
Let's go back to 1950 for an Encyclopaedia Britannia film entitled "Lewis and Clark," produced in affiliation with Emerson Film Corporation and in collaboration Dan E. Clark, PhD from the University of Oregon.
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