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He was also noticed by Joan Crawford who began to date him. On June 3, 1929, in Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, New York, Crawford and Fairbanks married. He went on a delayed honeymoon to England, where he was entertained by Noel Coward and George, Duke of Kent. He became active in both society and politics, but Crawford didn't enjoy either of these, and they were divorced in May 1933. Fairbanks starred in several pictures with Loretta Young. With Little Caesar, Outward Bound, Gunga Din and The Dawn Patro ...

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Birth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - First marriage, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Second marriage, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - World War II, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Death, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Legacy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Trivia, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Filmography

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She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958), who was of Irish and Scandinavian descent. Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Her father, who was born in Tennessee, was of distant French Huguenot extraction. His ancestors immigrated from London, England, in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations. LeSueur was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; Crawford later said she had been ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history." Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as memorable classics when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten. August 25 - The Wizard of Oz premieres in the US. December 15 - Gone ...

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There have been several revivals, each with variations in the prize-winning rules but still based on the core premise. Hollywood Squares - 1983-1984. Main articles: Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, and [[]], and [[]]See also:

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The show was often unpredictable and produced some notoriously tense moments. Artist Salvador Dalí was behaving so eccentrically that at one point Cavett interrupted him by waving his hands in Dalí's face and saying "Boojie, boojie!" The audience broke up, and Dalí appeared at a loss. A female viewer in a DC hospital bed reportedly had to have her stitches partially resewn from laughing so hard. An interview with Norman Mailer was not going well. Mailer moved his chair away from the other guests (Vidal and ...

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The main protagonist is the Hon. Rudolf Rassendyll, younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and (through an ancestor's indiscretion) a distant cousin of Rudolf V, the new King of Ruritania (a fictional Germanic kingdom situated between the German and Austrian Empires). King Rudolf is a hard-drinking, feckless playboy, unpopular with the common people, but supported by the aristocracy, the Church, the army, and the wealthier classes in general. His political rival is his younger half-brother, Michael, Duke and Governor of Strelsau, the capit ...

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There have been several revivals, each with variations in the prize-winning rules but still based on the core premise. Hollywood Squares - 1983-1984. Main article: Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of Sha-Na-Na hosted a version packaged back-to-back with Match Game. The Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour as it was called was jointly produced by Orion Television, which had purchased the rights to ...

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The show gave considerable publicity to singer Tiny Tim, an unusual-looking man with long hair who sang in a falsetto voice while accompanying himself on ukulele. Thanks to his appearances on the show, he achieved a hit single with his piercing version of the vintage 1920s song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Tiny Tim was later married on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to a woman known as Miss Vicky. Other musical moments came in the first season with some of the first music videos ever seen on TV, with cast members appearing in film clips set to the music ...

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North Island was commissioned a naval air station in 1917, called Naval Air Station, San Diego until 1955. On August 15, 1963, the station was granted official recognition as the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation" by resolution of the House Armed Services Committee. The Navy's first aviator, Lieutenant Theodore Ellyson, and many of his colleagues were trained at North Island starting as early as 1911. This was just eight years after Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first manned aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. At that time ...

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The poem inspired a 1939 swashbuckler film about three British soldiers and their native water bearer who fight to survive a Thuggee attack in colonial India. It stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, and Sam Jaffe in the title role. Originally, Grant and Fairbanks were chosen to play the roles assigned to each other. Grant insisted on playing the comedy role assigned to Fairbanks; the producer ...

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Little Caesar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation. Little Caesar was remade in 1973 as Black Caesar. In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the original film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It has been speculated, but never confirmed, that the anti-organized crime statutes in the United States were dubbed RICO in a sly homage to Little Caesar. The original drafter of the RICO bill ha ...

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Along with the talent he booked each week, he also had recurring characters appear many times a season, such as his puppet sidekick Topo Gigio, and ventriloquist Señor Wences. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show also aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. For many years, Ed Sullivan was a national event each Sunday evening, and was the first expo ...

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The show's greatest success was during its original run. In its heyday in the early 1970s, it was the most popular daytime show in the country and a platform for the stars to promote their work which seemed almost as popular as Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. The show got its beginning as a black-and-white pilot episode filmed for CBS in 1965. That pilot was hosted by Bert Parks with the squares occupied by Cliff Arquette in his "Charley Weaver" comic persona, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Abby Dalton, Jim Backus, G ...

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Although there have been variations over the years in the rules and the prize-winning aspects of the game, certain aspects of the game remained fairly consistent. 2 contestants, a woman playing Os (noughts) as "Miss Circle" and the man playing Xs (crosses) "Mister X", take turns picking a star and following the traditional tic-tac-toe strategies for which square to select. The star is asked a question and gives an answer. The contestant has the choice of agreeing with the celebrity or disagreeing if they think the star's bluffi ...

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Besides her work as an actress, from 1955 to 1973 Crawford traveled extensively on behalf of husband Al Steele's company, PepsiCo. Two days after Steele's death in 1959, she was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors. She was forcibly retired from the company in 1973 at the behest of company executive Don Kendall, whom Crawford had referred to for years as "Fang." She was the recipient of the Sixth Annual "Pally Award," which was in the shape of a bronze Pepsi bottle. It was awarded to the employee making the ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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In the late 1950s Crawford's career slowed down: movie after movie saw her relegated to menial roles. She made a surprising comeback in the highly successful What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), directed by Robert Aldrich, which cast her as a physically disabled woman in conflict with her demented sister, played by old rival Bette Davis, whom she detested. Similar roles in the handful of low-budget horror movies that followed rounded out a film career that spanned more than forty years and included performances in more than eighty ...

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She began her career as a dancer in a chorus line under the name Lucille LeSueur, eventually making her way to New York. In 1924 she signed a contract with MGM, and arrived in Culver City, California, in January 1925. Starting out in silent movies, Lucille worked hard to ensure that her contract with the studio would be renewed. Studio chief Louis B. Mayer was unhappy with her name, however, reportedly saying that "LeSueur" sounded too much like "sewer." A contest in the fan magazine Movie Weekly became the source of her well-known stage name. The female contestant who entered th ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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Joan adopted six children, according to L.A. Times articles from the time, though she kept only four. The first was Christina (born June 11, 1939), whom Crawford adopted in 1940 while she was single. The second was Christopher (born April 1941), whom Joan adopted in June of that year. In 1942, Christopher's biological mother found out where he was and managed to get him back. The third child was an 8-year-old named Phillip Terry, Jr. (born 1935), whom Joan and then husband Phillip Terry adopted in April 1943, but did not keep. The fou ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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Since the center square is the most strategic in tic-tac-toe, it is treated as the position of honor on the show. Besides Paul Lynde, center square occupants in later versions have included: Image:Buddy hackett and kermit.jpg Joan Rivers, who was the primary occupant in the late-1980s version; Whoopi Goldberg, who was the center square in the second revival for its first four years; and El ...

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