Airport 1975

Columbia Airlines is the name of a fictional airline used in the film. The plane used in the film was an American Airlines Boeing 747, registration number N9675, which was redressed as the notional "Columbia Airlines" plane. The aircraft now flies for United Parcel Service under the registration number N675UP. Footage of the Boeing 747 featured in "Airport 1975" has been re-used numerous times a ...

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Airport 1975, Airport 1975 - Plot, Airport 1975 - Trivia, Airport 1975 - Cast

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Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter on October 4, 1923, although the year is usually given as 1924), is an American film actor noted for heroic roles, and his long involvement in political issues. Charlton Heston - Early career. Heston was born in Evanston, Illinois to Lilla Charlton and Russell Whitford Carter. Before he was 10 his parents divorced. Some years later, his mother married Chester Heston. The new family moved to well-off Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, ...

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• Charlton Heston - Filmography

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Family Guy - Creation. While studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, Seth MacFarlane created a short film entitled The Life of Larry about a middle-aged slob named Larry Cummings, his cynical talking dog, Steve, his wife Lois and oversized son Milt. This film includes many of the same gags that would end up on Family Guy. After being hired at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., MacFarlane was given a chance at the age of 22 in 1996 to direct a sequel to the short entitled Larry and Steve< ...

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Family Guy, Family Guy - Characters, Family Guy - Structural and comedic approach, Family Guy - Episodes, Family Guy - The film, Family Guy - Opening song, Family Guy - Pop Culture References, Family Guy - History, Family Guy - Creation, Family Guy - Initial run, Family Guy - Revival efforts, Family Guy - Return to television, Family Guy - Controversy, Family Guy - Family Guy vs. The Simpsons, Family Guy - Other peers and critics, Family Guy - DVDs, Family Guy - Region 1, Family Guy - Region 2, Family Guy - Region 4, Family Guy - Trivia, Family Guy - Technical details, Family Guy - Podcast

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The one actor appearing in all four films is George Kennedy in the key role of airline mechanic Joe Patroni, although the sequels seem to have confused his wife's name and how many children he had. (Marie is the wife in the first movie, an absolutely solid marriage indicated, but Helen is his wife in the second movie. Joseph Patroni Jr. is in the second movie. Whoever his wife is, by 1979, she's deceased.) Like its novel namesake, the movie gives some insight to the operations of a modern airport of its day, although the book is, of c ...

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Airport film, Airport film - Cast, Airport film - Awards, Airport film - Further Comment and Plot Outline Airport 1970, Airport film - Trivia, Airport film - Sequels

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Heston was born in Evanston, Illinois to Lilla Charlton and Russell Whitford Carter. Before he was 10 his parents divorced. Some years later, his mother married Chester Heston. The new family moved to well-off Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where young Heston (his new name) attended New Trier High School. He enrolled in the school's drama program, where he performed with such outstanding results that he earned a scholarship to Northwestern University for drama in 1942. There he played in the 16mm amateur film ada ...

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Charlton Heston, Charlton Heston - Early career, Charlton Heston - Film career, Charlton Heston - Off screen, Charlton Heston - Political beliefs, Charlton Heston - Trivia, Charlton Heston - Quotes, Charlton Heston - Books, Charlton Heston - Filmography

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Alongside her friend (and fellow Australian expatriate) Olivia Newton-John, Reddy became one of the most successful female recording artists of the Seventies, with fourteen U.S. Top 40 singles between 1971 and 1978. Reddy was also instrumental in furthering Newton-John's career—she encouraged her friend to move from Britain to the United States in the early 1970s, and Newton-John won the starring role of "Sandy" in the hit film version of the musical Grease after a chance meeting with the film's pro ...

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Helen Reddy, Helen Reddy - Early years, Helen Reddy - 1970s success, Helen Reddy - Behind the hits, Helen Reddy - Film and theatre

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The plot of Airplane! is a well-travelled one. The story of an in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning, started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour! Thus Airplane! is the fourth remake of the Arthur Hailey novel Runway Zero-Eight. Also, there are several influences from the disaster movie Airport 1975. Airplane! is very close to Zero Hour!, following it virtually scene for scene, and lifting its major characters a ...

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Airplane!, Airplane! - Plot synopsis, Airplane! - Gag-based comedies, Airplane! - Notable gags in this motion picture, Airplane! - Response, Airplane! - Trivia, Airplane! - External link

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The signature Dulles main terminal houses ticketing, baggage claim, the Z gates, and other support facilities. From here passengers can take mobile lounges to their concourses, "plane mates" directly to their airplanes, or take the passenger walkway to concourse B. Washington Dulles International Airport - Mobile lounges. Dulles is the only airport in the world that uses the mobile lounge system. The "lounge" consists of a 54-by-16-foot carriage mounted on a scissor truck, capable of carrying 102 pa ...

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Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - Transportation to and from the airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - History and background, Washington Dulles International Airport - Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Mobile lounges, Washington Dulles International Airport - Main terminal, Washington Dulles International Airport - Midfield Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Dulles in fiction

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Kennedy was born into a show business family and made his stage debut at the age of two; he then became a radio performer. He put aside show business during World War II and spent 16 years in the United States Army, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry. He became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko. Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. He won an Academy Award for Best Suppo ...

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George Kennedy, George Kennedy - Biography, George Kennedy - Selected filmography

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The signature Dulles main terminal houses ticketing, baggage claim, the Z gates, and other support facilities. From here passengers can take mobile lounges to their concourses, "plane mates" directly to their airplanes, or take the passenger walkway to concourse B. Washington Dulles International Airport - Mobile lounges. Dulles is the only airport in the world that uses the mobile lounge system. The "lounge" consists of a 54-by-16-foot carriage mounted on a scissor truck, capable of carrying 102 pa ...

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Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - Transportation to and from the Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - History and background, Washington Dulles International Airport - Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Mobile lounges, Washington Dulles International Airport - Main terminal, Washington Dulles International Airport - Midfield Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Dulles in fiction

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To understand the Swanson at the height of her fame and popularity, one only needs to read this oft-repeated telegram she sent to her studio from Paris: "Arrving in New York Tuesday. Arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson died in New York City of a heart ailment at the age of 86; she was cremated and her ashes were buried at the Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest in New York City. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6748 Hollywood Boulevard and another for television at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. ...

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Gloria Swanson, Gloria Swanson - Early life, Gloria Swanson - Silent films, Gloria Swanson - Comeback in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson - Television, Gloria Swanson - Marriages, Gloria Swanson - Academy Award nominations, Gloria Swanson - Trivia, Gloria Swanson - Filmography

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... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious ...

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Virginia Gregg, Virginia Gregg - Filmography, Virginia Gregg - External link

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Airplane! is one of the most famous and acclaimed examples of a genre of similar gag-based comedies that defy logic, reason, and the "fourth wall" to produce laughter in any way possible, with comic references to other famous 'straight' disaster films such as Airport. The Monkees was a very successful TV series that was a pioneer in this type of comedy, and paved the way for not only Airplane!, ...

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Airplane!, Airplane! - Plot synopsis, Airplane! - Gag-based comedies, Airplane! - Notable gags in this motion picture, Airplane! - Response, Airplane! - Trivia, Airplane! - External link

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After several other former silent screen actresses (including Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Mae West) turned down the role, Swanson starred in 1950's Sunset Boulevard and it is scenes from Queen Kelly that her character Norma Desmond watches with her co-stars William Holden and Eric von Stroheim. Swanson was nominated for her 3rd Best Actress Oscar but lost to Judy Holliday (who was photographed sitting next to Swanson and Jose Ferrer in New York during the telecast), but Swanson was gracious in defeat. She received several subsequent acting offers but turned most of ...

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Gloria Swanson, Gloria Swanson - Early life, Gloria Swanson - Silent films, Gloria Swanson - Comeback in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson - Television, Gloria Swanson - Marriages, Gloria Swanson - Academy Award nominations, Gloria Swanson - Trivia, Gloria Swanson - Filmography

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At the end of World War II, growth in aviation and in the Washington metropolitan area led Congress to pass the Washington Airport Act of 1950, providing federal backing for a second airport. The current site was selected by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958. Civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The main buildings of the airport were designed by famed Finnish architect Eero Saarinen. The first new airport ...

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Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - Transportation to and from the airport, Washington Dulles International Airport - History and background, Washington Dulles International Airport - Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Mobile lounges, Washington Dulles International Airport - Main terminal, Washington Dulles International Airport - Midfield Terminals, Washington Dulles International Airport - Dulles in fiction

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Her film debut was in 1914 as an extra in The Song of Soul, but by four years later she was a star in Teddy at the Throttle. She played in many Mack Sennett slapstick comedies, and in 1919 she signed with Cecil B. DeMille, who turned her into a romantic lead in such films as Don't Change Your Husband, Male and Female, The Affairs of Anatol, and Why Change Your Wife?. Swanson later appeared in a series of films directed by Sam Wood. In 1922 she starred in the silent film Beyond the Rocks with Rudolph Valentino (this film had been believed lost but was rediscovered in 20 ...

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Gloria Swanson, Gloria Swanson - Early life, Gloria Swanson - Silent films, Gloria Swanson - Comeback in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson - Television, Gloria Swanson - Marriages, Gloria Swanson - Academy Award nominations, Gloria Swanson - Trivia, Gloria Swanson - Filmography

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Trans Global Airlines has been seen in many other Universal Studios productions, such as the television program Emergency!, when a fictional airline is needed. In this film, flight 2 is a Boeing 707, flying from Chicago to Rome and its registry code is N324F. The real aircraft Boeing 707-349C (msn/ln 19354-503) was delivered to Flying Tiger Line on June 21, 1966. It was leased from Flying Tigers by Universal Studios and after the film (according to an article by Sergio Ortega at airodyssey.net) the real Boeing 707-349C had the followi ...

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Airport film, Airport film - Cast, Airport film - Awards, Airport film - Further Comment and Plot Outline Airport 1970, Airport film - Trivia, Airport film - Sequels

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Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family—her parents, well-known performers on the Australian vaudeville circuit, were actress and singer Stella Lamond and writer-actor-comedian Max Reddy; her older sister is actress-singer Toni Lamond; and her nephew is actor-singer Tony Sheldon. Reddy began performing on stage with her parents at four years of age. In her late teens she was briefly married to an older musician, with whom she had a daughter, Traci, but they divorced soon afterwards. After beginning her caree ...

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Helen Reddy, Helen Reddy - Early years, Helen Reddy - 1970s success, Helen Reddy - Behind the hits, Helen Reddy - Film and theatre

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The show revolves around the adventures of Peter Griffin and his family. Peter is an incompetent blue-collar worker, and a bumbling, drunken father, yet still a dedicated family man. Peter is Irish-American and is also directly descended from an African-American slave owned by his wife's ancestors. His wife, Lois, a stay-at-home mom and piano teacher, is the daughter of the Pewterschmidts, a wealthy socialite family. Their children are socially awkward: status-conscious Meg Griffin, whose supposed ugliness has driven people to set the ...

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Family Guy, Family Guy - Characters, Family Guy - Structural and comedic approach, Family Guy - Episodes, Family Guy - The film, Family Guy - Opening song, Family Guy - Pop Culture References, Family Guy - History, Family Guy - Creation, Family Guy - Initial run, Family Guy - Revival efforts, Family Guy - Return to television, Family Guy - Controversy, Family Guy - Family Guy vs. The Simpsons, Family Guy - Other peers and critics, Family Guy - DVDs, Family Guy - Region 1, Family Guy - Region 2, Family Guy - Region 4, Family Guy - Trivia, Family Guy - Technical details, Family Guy - Podcast

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The characters live and work in fictional Quahog, Rhode Island (pronounced "KOH-hog", IPA /'kəʊhɑg/), a hyperrealistic and intensely satirical version of a small Rhode Island town. ("Quahog" is a term for a New England hard shell clam, and also a New England slang term for an extremely stupid person. The term also doubles as a slang term for "vagina", similar to the term "clam.") Characters' lives largely revolve around items and ideas of popular culture, which are incorporated into ev ...

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Family Guy, Family Guy - Characters, Family Guy - Structural and comedic approach, Family Guy - Episodes, Family Guy - The film, Family Guy - Opening song, Family Guy - Pop Culture References, Family Guy - History, Family Guy - Creation, Family Guy - Initial run, Family Guy - Revival efforts, Family Guy - Return to television, Family Guy - Controversy, Family Guy - Family Guy vs. The Simpsons, Family Guy - Other peers and critics, Family Guy - DVDs, Family Guy - Region 1, Family Guy - Region 2, Family Guy - Region 4, Family Guy - Trivia, Family Guy - Technical details, Family Guy - Podcast

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