Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical film The Sound of Music was directed by Robert Wise and starred Julie Andrews (above) and Christopher
Plummer. It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture in 1965
and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced. The cast album was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The film ultimately
grossed over $158 million at the U.S. and Canada box office, and displaced
Gone With the Wind as the all-time champion.

Christopher Plummer from The Sound of Music 

The first issue of Time magazine featured the retired speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives Joseph G. Cannon on its cover, shown above.

King Kong opened at the 6,200 seat Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Crowds
lined up around the block on opening day and tickets were priced at 35 to 75 cents 
and, in its first four days, every one of its ten shows a day were sold out, setting 
an all  time attendance record for an indoor event. Over the four day period, the 
film grossed $89,931. In 1991 Kong was selected by the Library of Congress for 
preservation in the National Film Registry.

DVD release, 2006

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Actor Robert Conrad is best known for his role in the CBS-TV series The
Wild Wild West (1965 – 1969) , in which he played the sophisticated Secret
Service agent James T. West, and his portrayal of World War II flying ace Pappy Boyington in the NBC-TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976 – 1978). He was
a recording artist of pop/rock songs in the early 1960s as Bob Conrad before
he started acting. He currently hosts a weekly 2 hour national radio show
called “The PM Show with Robert Conrad” heard on CRN Digital Talk Radio.  
 

Robert Conrad with co-star Ross Martin (left) 

Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep

Death Valley Days aired from March 1, 1952 to August 1, 1975 and was 
the most successful syndicated television Western ever in the half-hour 
format. The stories used in the series were based on actual events.

The longest-running host was "The Old Ranger"
from 1952 to 1965, played by Stanley Andrews.