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AN INTERVIEW BY BOB ADKINS IN 1963

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Spencer’s Mountain is a 1963 family film written, directed, and produced by
Delmar Daves from a novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. (The Waltons).

Bob Adkins (Addie Bobkins) interviews Mimsy Farmer and James
MacArthur, of the cast of Spencer’s Mountain, and the Director,
Delmar Daves (1963).

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KATE WINSLET IS 36 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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Kate Winslet in Titanic

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Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She is the
youngest actor to receive six Academy Award nominations, and won a Academy
Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader (2008). Kate has won a wards
from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and has been nominated twice for an
Emmy Award for her work in television. Winslet studied drama from childhood,
and began her career in British Television in 1991. She made her film debut
in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). She is best known for her
leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at that time.


 

 

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LIVE DRAMA SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1956

PLAYHOUSE 90 TITLE CARD
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Rod Serling

Playhouse 90 is a television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from
Thursday October 4, 1956 to May 18, 1960 for a total of 133 hour-and-a-half
episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, Ca. The first  
show featured Rod Serling’s  Forbidden Area, an adaptation of  a novel by 
Pat Frank.  

Opening for the premiere of the second season

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Mickey Rooney (on table) in a scene from Rod Serling’s “The Comedian”, a 
Playhouse 90 production in February of 1957.

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REMEMBERING ~ CHARLTON HESTON

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                     (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008)

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter) was a legendary actor of film,
theater and television. His most well known roles include such films as The
Ten Commandments
(1956), Planet of the Apes (1968), classis epic Ben-Hur
(1959) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was president
of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1998 to 2003.

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Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments

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NRA president Charlton Heston

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NEW SUNDAY SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
is a anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. It
premiered on Sunday October 2, 1955 and ran till May 10, 1965 on the CBS
television network. Time magazine named the show one of “The 100 Best TV
Shows of All-Time”.

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Alfred Hitchcock on the set during an opening segment of the show

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