Blue Hawaii was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the
category of Best Written Musical. It opened on Wednesday November 22,
1961 at no. 2 in box office receipts for that week amid mixed reviews from
critics and finished as the #8 top-grossing movie of 1961. It earned $5
million and won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the Top Musical
category.
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur premiered at Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. The epic film
went on to win a record of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, a
record equaled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return
of the King in 2003.
(October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984)
Janet Gaynor was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film
era. In 1928 Gaynor became the first and only winner of the Academy
Award for Best Actress for her performances in three different films:
Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and
Street Angel (1928). Her career continued with the advent of talking
pictures when she achieved success in the original version of A Star
Is Born (1937).
Karen Allen in Animal House
Karen Allen is best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Steven
Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Her major film debut was in National
Lampoon’s Animal House (1978). She also co-starred in Starman (1984)
and Scrooged (1988).
Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges as they appeared in Starman
Karen Allen and Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)
William Conrad (born John William Cann, Jr.) was a actor, writer, producer and
director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television. He
created the role of Marshall Matt Dillion for the popular CBS radio series,
Gunsmoke (1952–1961), and narrated the television adventures of Rocky
and Bullwinkle (1959–1964) and The Fugitive on ABC (1963-1967). Conrad
starred as a detective in the CBS-TV series Cannon (1971-1976), and in the
crime drama Jake and the Fatman on CBS (1987-1992).
William Conrad in a promotion photo for Gunsmoke
