What Rock and Roll Icon starred in a 1958 film with Walter Matthau and an actress who died in 1983 and is best known for her role of Morticia Adams in 'The Adams Family' ?
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King Creole King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. Produced by Hal B. Wallis and based on the 1952 novel "A Stone for Danny Fisher" by Harold Robbins, the film is about a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women.
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Carolyn Jones Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Bachelor Party" (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, she began playing the role of Morticia Addams (as well as her sister Ophelia and the feminine counterpart of Thing, Lady Fingers), in the original black and white television series "The Addams Family", receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her work.
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Mabel Ballin Mabel Ballin (January 1, 1887 – July 24, 1958) was an American motion-picture actress of the silent film era.
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Margaret Irving Margaret Irving (January 18, 1898, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - March 5, 1988, San Francisco, California) was an American actress. She is best remembered today for her roles as Aunt Gus in the 1950s sitcom "The People's Choice" and as Mrs. Whitehead in "Animal Crackers" (1930) starring the Marx Brothers. Her other films included "San Francisco" (1936), "Captain Calamity" (1936), "Follow Your Heart" (1936), "Charlie Chan at the Opera" (1936), "Mr. Moto's Last Warning" (1939), and "In Society" (1944). Died at the age of 90.
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1958 (film) 1958 is a Norwegian 1980 drama film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Rune Dybedahl and Cecilie Holter. It takes place in the year 1958, and deals with a group of teenagers in Sinsen, Oslo.
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Cathy O'Donnell Cathy O'Donnell (July 6, 1923 – April 11, 1970) was an American actress, best remembered for her roles in films-noir.
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Elizabeth Ramsey Elizabeth Indino Ramsey (December 3, 1931 – October 8, 2015) was a Filipina stand-up comedian, singer and actress. Known for her trademark Visayan-accented dialogues, which she performed in English or Tagalog, she was regarded as the country's "Queen of Rock and Roll" and "Original Queen of Comedy". She rose to fame in 1958 after winning a singing contest in "Student Canteen", the first noontime show on Philippine television.
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Rollover (film) Rollover is a 1981 American political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson. The film was nominated for a Razzie Awards for Worst Actor for Kristofferson.
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Brenda Lee Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley, December 11, 1944) is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is perhaps best known in the United States for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", a United States holiday standard for almost 60 years.
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Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she emerged in such films as "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946), "Dead Reckoning" (1947), "Desert Fury" (1947), and "Too Late for Tears" (1949). Of her 21 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.
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Donna Butterworth Donna Butterworth (born February 23, 1956) is an American motion picture performer who acted in "The Family Jewels" with Jerry Lewis and "Paradise, Hawaiian Style" with Elvis Presley, as well as a two-part episode of "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" entitled "A Boy Called Nuthin'" with Ron Howard. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in "The Family Jewels".
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Movers &amp; Shakers Movers & Shakers is a 1985 American comedy film distributed by MGM, starring Walter Matthau and directed by William Asher.
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Constance Adams DeMille Constance Adams DeMille (April 27, 1873 - July 17, 1960) actress and wife of filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille.
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Claire Adams Claire Adams (24 September 1898 – 25 September 1978) was a Canadian silent film actress and benefactor.
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Freddie Bell Ferdinando Dominick Bello, known as Freddie Bell, (September 29, 1931 – February 10, 2008), was an American musician, whose group, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, were influential in the development of rock and roll in the 1950s. He was a prominent performer with the group on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued to perform in Las Vegas into his later years after the demise of the group.
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Marla English Marla English (January 4, 1935, San Diego, California – December 10, 2012, Tucson, Arizona) was an American film actress during the 1950s.
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (play) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is an original stage comedy in three acts and four scenes by George Axelrod. After a try-out run at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston from 26 September 1955, it opened at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on 13 October, starring Jayne Mansfield, Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. Directed by the author and produced by Jule Styne, it closed on 3 November 1956 after 444 performances.
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Silkwood Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death was vindicated in a victorious 1979 lawsuit, "Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee", led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered its verdict of $10 million in damages to be paid to the Silkwood estate (her children), the largest amount in damages ever awarded for that kind of case at the time. The Silkwood estate eventually settled for $1.3 million.
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Mary Stuart (actress) Mary Stuart (July 4, 1926 – February 28, 2002) was an American actress, guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Elvira Hancock Elvira Hancock is a fictional character in the 1983 American mob film "Scarface", portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. This proved to be her breakthrough role. She is the mistress of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) and after his death, becomes the wife of Tony Montana (Al Pacino).
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Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 – December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in "The Sheik" opposite Rudolph Valentino.
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The Lovers of Montparnasse The Lovers of Montparnasse (French: Les Amants de Montparnasse ), also known as Montparnasse 19, is a 1958 French-Italian drama film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani who worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.