Fontella Bass, the singer whose 1965 hit “Rescue Me” was an indelible example of the decade’s finest pop-soul, died on Wednesday in St. Louis. According to her daughter Neuka Mitchell, the cause was complications of a recent heart attack.
No actors are named during the film’s dramatic opening credits; the cast credits appear at the end of the film. The movie was partly filmed in Glacier National Park and interior sets built at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.
In 2001, the movie was deemed to be a "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant motion picture by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
James Arness In his first movie role, played The Thing, but he is hard to recognize in costume and makeup, because of both the lighting and the other effects used to obscure his features.
Howdy Doody is an children’s television program, created and produced by E. Roger Muirand telecast on NBC from 1947 until 1960. It was one of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early color production as NBC (at the time owned by TV maker RCA) used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.
The character Howdy Doody first came to life from the creative mind of Bob Smith during his days as a radio announcer on WNBC (AM).