Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in “Grease” (1978)
Olivia Newton-John is a four-time Grammy award winner who has had
five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No.
1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles, have been certified
gold by the RIAA. Her music has been successful in multiple formats
including pop, country and adult contemporary and has sold an
estimated over 100 million albums worldwide.
Ralston-Purina obtained his permission to produce a Tom Mix radio series
on NBC called Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters which, but for one year
during World War II, was popular throughout most of the 1930s until June
of 1950. Mix, a western film star, never appeared on these broadcasts,
and was instead played by radio actors like Joe "Curley" Bradley (above)
who portrayed Mix from 1944 until 1950. Others in the supporting cast
included George Gobel, Harold Peary and Willard Waterman.
The Ralston company, sponsor of the show, asked
listeners to send in for a series of 12 special Ralston-
Tom Mix Comic books available only by writing the
Ralston Company by mail.
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix was "the King of Cowboys"
when John Wayne was a youngster.
Mickey Rooney (Joseph Yule, Jr.) has been working as a performer
since he was a child. He was a superstar as a teenager for the films
in which he played Andy Hardy, and has one of the longest careers
of any actor to date spanning 90 years actively making films in ten
decades (1920s to 2010s).
Mickey Rooney has received numerous awards,including a Juvenile
Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes
and an Emmy Award.
1941
Them!, was Warner Brothers’ highest grossing film of 1954 and was the first
motion picture to have “monsters” generated by mutations due to nuclear
activity. It was nominated for an Oscar for Special Effects and won a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing. Leonard Nimoy appears as an Air Force sergeant (below) in the Communications Room (uncredited).
Early school photo of Stephen King
King’s books, including the horror classics “Carrie” (1974), and “Misery”
(1987), have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into
a number of feature films, television movies and comic books.
