#The Catered Affair - 1956

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The Catered Affair (1956)

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The Last Movie I Watched...

The Catered Affair (1956, Dir.: Richard Brooks)

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Italian Radio Stations FM & AM + Radio Online - (Radio Android Application 🇮🇹📻)

 As an AI language model, I can generate an article about radio stations in Italy. Here it is:

Radio has been a popular medium for entertainment, information, and news across Italy for decades. With over 1,000 radio stations operating across the country, listeners have a vast selection of stations to choose from, catering to a wide range of interests, preferences, and languages.

The Italian radio landscape is dominated by two types of radio stations: public and commercial. RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, operates a network of national and local stations across the country, broadcasting news, current affairs, music, and cultural programs. RAI's flagship stations include Rai Radio 1, Rai Radio 2, and Rai Radio 3, which offer a mix of news, sports, music, and cultural content.

Commercial radio stations in Italy operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Economic Development, which regulates and oversees their licensing and programming. Commercial stations cater to a range of interests and formats, including music, news, talk, sports, and more. Some of the most popular commercial radio stations in Italy include Radio Deejay, Radio 105, Radio Italia, RDS, and Radio Monte Carlo.

Radio Deejay is one of Italy's most popular commercial radio stations, known for its contemporary pop and rock music, humor, and celebrity interviews. The station's flagship program, "Deejay Chiama Italia," features live calls from listeners discussing current events and issues.

Radio 105, another popular commercial station, specializes in electronic dance music, featuring DJs from around the world and broadcasting from Milan. The station's "Morning Show" is one of its most popular programs, featuring music, humor, and news updates.

Radio Italia is a commercial station that broadcasts Italian and international music, as well as live concerts and events. The station's flagship program, "The Italy Show," features interviews with Italian celebrities and musicians.

RDS is a popular commercial station that offers a mix of music, news, and talk shows, featuring celebrity interviews, sports updates, and lifestyle content. The station's "The Morning Zoo" program is known for its humor and entertainment.

Radio Monte Carlo, founded in 1956, is one of Italy's oldest and most popular commercial radio stations, broadcasting a mix of music, news, and cultural content. The station's flagship program, "Montecarlo Nights," features a blend of jazz, soul, and pop music, as well as interviews with musicians and cultural figures.

In conclusion, the Italian radio landscape is diverse and vibrant, offering listeners a wide range of options to suit their preferences and interests. Whether you are looking for news, music, talk shows, or cultural content, there is a radio station for everyone in Italy.

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Debbie Reynolds and Rod Taylor in “The Catered Affair”, 1956

I don’t know what I believe. You mean, I’ve never told you what I feel about you? Yes … oh yes, but don’t ever stop telling me!

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Bette Davis, Barry Fitzgerald, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, and Rod Taylor in a publicity shot for THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)

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Debbie Reynolds-Bette Davis "Banquete de bodas" (The catered affair) 1956, de Richard Brooks.

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ROD TAYLOR.

Filmography

1953 King of the Coral Sea

1954 Long John Siver

1955 The Virgin Queen

1955 Top Gun

1956 Hell on Frisco Bay

1956 World Without End

1956 The Catered Affair

1956 Giant

1956 The Rack Al

1957 Raintree County

1958 Step Down to Terror

1958 Separate Tables

1959 Ask Any Girl

1960 The Time Machine

1960 Colossus and the Amazon

1961 One Hundred and One

1962 Seven Seas to Calais

1963 The Birds Mitch Brenner

1963 The V.I.P.s

1963 A Gathering of Eagles

1963 Sunday in New York

1964 Fate Is the Hunter

1965 36 Hours Major Walter

1965 Young Cassidy

1965 The Liquidator

1965 Do Not Disturb

1966 The Glass Bottom Boat

1967 Hotel

1967 Chuka

1968 Dark of the Sun

1968 Nobody Runs Forever

1968 The Hell with Heroes

1970 Zabriskie Point

1970 Darker Than Amber Travis

1970 The Man Who Had Power Over

1973 The Train Robbers

1973 Gli eroi

1973 Trader Horn

1973 The Deadly Trackers

1974 Hell River Marko

1976 blondie

1976 The Oregon Trail

1977 Gulliver's Travels

1977 The Picture Show Man

1979 The Treasure Seekers

1982 A Time to Die

1983 On the Run

1984 Terror in the Aisles

1985 Marbella, a five-star coup

1985 Mask of Murder

1995 Open Season

1995 Point of Betrayal

1998 Welcome to Woop Woop

2009 Inglourious Basterds.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Taylor

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DESILU SOLD!

July 27, 1967

Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 by Lucille Ball and her then-husband, Desi Arnaz. The name was a portmanteau of the couple's first names and was originally applied to the Ball-Arnaz ranch. 

Desilu was one of many television production companies that sprung up all over the Hollywood catering to the growing needs of the increasingly popular medium of television. The success of “I Love Lucy” enabled Desilu to expand throughout the 1950s. 

When RKO Pictures went bankrupt in 1957, Desilu bought its studios and other location facilities. These acquisitions gave the Ball-Arnaz TV empire a total of 33 sound stages - four more than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eleven more than Twentieth Century-Fox had in 1957.

Desilu operated the physical facilities bought from RKO, which included the main Gower Street Studio in Hollywood, next door to Paramount Pictures. It also consisted of a studio in Culver City and the ‘40 Acres’ backlot – most famous for being Mayberry in “The Andy Griffith Show.”

On the lot there was a small theatre called Desilu Playhouse where Lucy hosted the Desilu Workshop, a training ground for new performers. 

After the breakup of the Ball-Arnaz marriage in early 1960, Desilu remained successful. 

In 1962, Ball bought out Arnaz and became the first female Hollywood mogul ever to run a major motion picture studio, albeit a reluctant one, as Ball never wanted to be a businesswoman. It was shortly after her second marriage to comedian Gary Morton in 1961, that she left the minutiae of the studio's business and financial affairs to her new husband by naming him Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors. 

During Ball's time as sole owner, Desilu developed popular series such as “Mission: Impossible” (1966), “Mannix” (1967), “That Girl” (1966), and “Star Trek” (1966).   

By April 1964, Desilu found itself in financial trouble – partly due to the fact that husband Morton was inexperienced at running a motion picture studio. “The Lucy Show” was their only remaining self-made production, even though other shows were still produced on the lot as consignments (rentals) from other production companies. 

Ball’s success as an actress continued until February 1967, when Ball announced she would sell Desilu to Gulf+Western, a decision which was formalized on July 27, 1967. The act of selling Desilu to Gulf+Western brought the studio under the same parent company as its next-door neighbor Paramount Pictures. The event was commemorated the next day by a dramatic ceremony in which Ball cut a ribbon of film stock which had replaced a wall between the two production studios. Lucille Ball left the Desilu lot the very same day (taking her own hugely popular “The Lucy Show” with her, the only studio asset not included in the sale), directly after the ownership transfer ceremony. 

After selling Desilu, rather than working for Paramount, Ball established her own production company, Lucille Ball Productions (LBP) in 1968. The company went to work on her new series “Here's Lucy” that year. The program ran until 1974 and enjoyed several years of ratings success. LBP continues to exist, and its primary purpose is residual sales of license rights for “Here's Lucy.”

Television shows produced by or taped at Desilu

The Jack Benny Program (CBS; 1950-1964/NBC; 1964–1965)

I Love Lucy (CBS; 1951–1957)

Our Miss Brooks (CBS; 1952–1956)

The Danny Thomas Show a.k.a. Make Room for Daddy (ABC; 1953–1957/CBS; 1957–1964)

Private Secretary (CBS; 1953–1957)

December Bride (CBS; 1954–1959)

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC; 1955–1961)

Meet McGraw (NBC; 1957–1958)

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (CBS; 1957–1960)

Whirlybirds (Syndicated; 1957–1960)

The Real McCoys (ABC; 1957–1962/CBS; 1962–1963)

The Ann Sothern Show (CBS; 1958–1961)

The Untouchables (ABC; 1959–1963)

The Andy Griffith Show (CBS; 1960–1968)

The Lineup a.k.a. San Francisco Beat (CBS; 1954–1960)

Sheriff of Cochise a.k.a. United States Marshal a.k.a. U.S. Marshal (Syndicated, 1956–1960)

Harrigan and Son (ABC; 1960–1961)

My Three Sons (ABC; 1960–1965/CBS; 1965–1972)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS; 1961–1966)

The Lucy Show (CBS; 1962–1968)

You Don't Say! (NBC; 1963–1969)

My Favorite Martian (CBS; 1963–1965)

The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series) (ABC; 1963–1964)

Gomer Pyle, USMC (CBS; 1964–1969)

I Spy (NBC; 1965–1968)

Hogan's Heroes (CBS; 1965–1971)

Star Trek (NBC; 1966–1969)

Family Affair (CBS; 1966–1971)

That Girl (ABC; 1966–1971)

Mission: Impossible (CBS; 1966–1973)

Mannix (CBS; 1967–1975)

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Motion Picture Daily - April 11, 1956

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Madge Kennedy (April 19, 1891 – June 9, 1987) was a stage, film and TV actress whose career began as a stage actress in 1912 and flourished in motion pictures during the silent film era. In 1921, journalist Heywood Broun described her as "the best farce actress in New York".

Kennedy was born in Chicago. Her father was a judge in a criminal court. After she and her family lived in California, she moved to New York City with her mother to paint. She studied two years at the Art Students League, planning to be an illustrator. Luis Mora saw her art work and recommended that she go to Siasconset (in Nantucket, Massachusetts) for a summer.

The Siasconset colony was evenly divided among actors and artists, and painters often gave theatrical performances.

Kennedy appeared in a skit written by Kenneth and Roy Webb[5] and impressed professional Harry Woodruff, who commented, "She could act rings around anybody."[citation needed] As a result, she was offered the lead opposite Woodruff in The Genius. Soon she was in Cleveland, Ohio, where Robert McLaughlin gave her work with his stock company.

Kennedy first appeared on Broadway in Little Miss Brown (1912), a farce in three acts presented at the 48th Street Theater. Critics found Kennedy's performance most pleasing, writing, "Miss Kennedy's youth, good looks, and marked sense of fun helped her to make a decidedly favorable impression last night." That same year she appeared in The Point of View.

1914 saw her in the popular Twin Beds, and in 1915 she scored a sensational hit at the Eltinge Theater as Blanny Wheeler opposite John Cumberland in Avery Hopwood's classic farce, Fair and Warmer, which ran 377 performances. Critic Louis Vincent DeFoe wrote, "Madge Kennedy proves anew that consummate art is involved even in farcical acting."[citation needed] In the late Teens she would leave the stage for three years to appear in moving pictures for Samuel Goldwyn (see "Films" below).

Kennedy returned to the New York stage in November 1920, playing in Cornered, staged at the Astor Theatre. Produced by Henry Savage, the play, taken from the writing of Dodson Mitchell, offered Kennedy a dual role.

In 1923 she starred opposite W.C. Fields in Poppy, where she enjoyed top billing. In the comedy, Beware of Widows (1925), which was produced at Maxine Elliott Theatre, a reviewer for The New York Times noted, once again, Kennedy's physical beauty as well as her skill as a comedian.

Later, she starred in Philip Barry's Paris Bound (1927) and in Noël Coward's Private Lives (1931), having succeeded Gertrude Lawrence.

After an absence of 33 years, she returned to Broadway in August 1965, appearing with her good friend Ruth Gordon in Gordon and Kanin's A Very Rich Woman.

In 1917, Sam Goldwyn of Goldwyn Pictures signed Kennedy to a film contract. She starred in 21 five-reel films,[2] such as Baby Mine (1917), Nearly Married (1917), Our Little Wife (1918), The Service Star (1918) and Dollars and Sense (1920).

Kennedy told a reporter in 1916, "I have discovered that one of the best ways to act is to make your mind as vacant as possible."[citation needed] In 1918, Our Little Wife premiered with Kennedy playing the role of Dodo Warren. The story is about a woman whose marriage is both humorous and sad. The screenplay was adapted from a comedy by Avery Hopwood.

A Perfect Lady (1918) was released in December and was taken from a stage play by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. Kennedy co-starred with James Montgomery. In 1923, she starred in The Purple Highway. The screenplay is an adaptation of the stage play Dear Me, written by Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton.

The 1920s were a productive period for Kennedy. Following The Purple Highway, she had prominent roles in Three Miles Out (1924), Scandal Sheet (1925), Bad Company (1925), Lying Wives (1925), Oh, Baby! (1926), and Walls Tell Tales (1928).

She was out of motion pictures until she resumed her career in The Marrying Kind (1952)[2] and Main Street to Broadway (1953).

In the late 1950s, she combined TV work with roles in movies like The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), The Catered Affair (1956), Lust for Life (1956),[2] Houseboat (1958), A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958), Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959), and North by Northwest (1959). She has an uncredited part as a secretary in the Marilyn Monroe film Let's Make Love (1960).

Her film career endured into the 1970s with roles in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Baby Maker (1970), The Day of the Locust (1975), and Marathon Man (1976).

As a guest on the Red Davis series (1934) over NBC Radio and WJZ (WABC-AM) network, Kennedy worked with Burgess Meredith who had the title role. She was written into the full script by the program's creator, Elaine Sterne Carrington.

Kennedy was prolific in terms of her television appearances beginning with an episode of the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1954). Her additional performances in television series are Studio 57 (1954), General Electric Theater (1954), Science Fiction Theater (1955), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960), The Best of the Post (1961), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1961), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), The Twilight Zone (1963), and CBS Playhouse (1967). She also had a semi-recurring role as Theodore Cleaver's Aunt Martha on the hit family sitcom Leave it to Beaver (1957–63). She played June Cleaver's aunt and the Beaver's great-aunt. Ms. Kennedy also appeared as Mimi (the wife of Albert, Felix's grandfather played by Tony Randall) in The Odd Couple (1972).

Kennedy and her husband, Harold Bolster (who had been an executive with Goldwyn), formed Kenma Corporation, a film production company. Kenma made The Purple Highway (1923) and Three Miles Out (1924), both of which starred Kennedy but had little success.

Kennedy's contract with Goldwyn ended in 1921.[2] She decided to return to the stage so that she could be close to her husband, broker Harold Bolster, in New York. Bolster died on August 3, 1927 from an illness he contracted months before during a business trip to South America. He was a member of the New York banking firm of Bennett, Bolster & Coghill. Bolster was 38 and a veteran of World War I. Kennedy inherited more than $500,000 when he died.

She wed William B. Hanley Jr., in Kingman, Arizona, on August 13, 1934. Hanley was an actor and radio personality. The couple resided in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy retired temporarily after her marriage before returning to work in entertainment. The couple would remain married until Hanley's death in 1959.

She enjoyed outdoor activities such as playing golf, horseback riding and driving cars. She owned a Willys-Knight Great Six which she drove avidly at the time she was touring in 1929 in the play, Lulu. In August 1929, she was sued in a Norwich, Connecticut court for damages she caused in a car accident on the Boston Post Road near Groton, Connecticut, in June 1928. The plaintiffs asked for $13,000.

Madge Kennedy died of respiratory failure at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, in 1987. She was 96.

Kennedy has a star at 1600 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

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Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words, and her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie.

She starred in Singin' in the Rain (1952), How the West Was Won (1962), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a biographical film about the famously boisterous Molly Brown.[1] Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973), Mother (1996) (Golden Globe nomination), and In & Out (1997). Reynolds was also a cabaret performer. In 1979, she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today.

In 1969, she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. In 1973, Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love (1999) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace. At the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disney's Halloweentown series. In 1988, she released her autobiography, titled Debbie: My Life. In 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir.

Reynolds also had several business ventures, including ownership of a dance studio and a Las Vegas hotel and casino, and she was an avid collector of film memorabilia, beginning with items purchased at the landmark 1970 MGM auction. She served as president of The Thalians, an organization dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties. In January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In the same year, a documentary about her life was released titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which turned out to be her final film appearance; the film premiered on HBO on January 7, 2017.[

Reynolds died following a stroke on December 28, 2016, one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

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I heard about this movie in a documentary about Gore Vidal. I knew nothing of the plot, or anything else about this film. It's actually a very well done drama. I borrowed the DVD, from the library. I had a feeling that it had been some form of a play, before it was a movie. I was correct. It was a TV play, first. It was better than I expected it to be.

The Catered Affair (also known as Wedding Party) is a 1956 American comedy-drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Gore Vidal, based on a 1955 television play by Paddy Chayefsky. The film score was by André Previn and the cinematography by John Alton.

The film stars Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald and Rod Taylor.

It was Taylor's first film for MGM after signing a long-term contract with the studio.

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Ernest Borgnine, January 24, 1917 - July 8, 2012.

With Debbie Reynolds in The Catered Affair (1956).

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Remembering Debbie Reynolds on her birthday

Born on April 1, 1932 as Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas

Died on December 28, 2016 in Los Angeles, California

“We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a ‘wanton woman’.”

“‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.”

“I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world. I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.”

“I never thought I would live this long.”  ... thank heavens, you made it! 

Happy Birthday Debbie ... wherever you are, sweetheart ❤! 

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Director Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992), pictured on set with the stars of THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)