ROWAN AND MARTIN AT THE MOVIES

Brown, Les, 1912-2001

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Les (Lester Raymond) Brown (b. March 14, 1912, Reinerton, PA - d. January 4, 2001, Los Angeles, CA) was a 1936 graduate of Duke University. There he led his first dance band, the Duke Blue Devils, for which he also played clarinet and saxophone. The band would go on to professional fame in the 1940s under the name Les Brown and His Band of Renown. During that decade Brown had several hit songs, most notably Sentimental Journey (1944) and I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (1946). He performed exte...

Burnett, Carol, 1933-

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Biography Carol Burnett (b. April 26, 1933, San Antonio, Texas) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer. During the 1950s, Burnett gained popularity as a regular on The Garry Moore Television Show. She made her Broadway debut in the musical Once Upon a Mattress (1959) and appeared in several television specials in the 1960s before moving on to her own weekly television program, The Carol Burnett Show. Burnett's screen credits...

McNair, Barbara, 1934-2007

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Barbara McNair (b. March 4, 1934, Chicago, IL–d. Feb. 4, 2007, Los Angeles, CA) was an American singer and theater, television and film actress. She studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago....

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

Martin, Dean, 1917-1995

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Born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, June 17, 1917; worked various odd jobs including amateur boxer; started his career singing at Steubenville night spots; first used the name Dean Martin while singing with the Sammy Watkins Band in Cleveland (ca. 1941); partnered with Jerry Lewis (1946-56) as the straight half of one of America's most successful comedy teams of the 1940s and 50s; he remained a popular solo entertainer with song recordings, TV specials, his own long-running TV variety...

Diller, Phyllis, 1917-2012

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Phyllis Ada Driver (b. July 17, 1917, Lima, OH - d. August 20, 2012, Los Angeles, CA). She studied at the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago, IL for three years, beginning in fall 1934. She married Sherwood Anderson Diller, and the couple and their children moved from Ypsilanti, MI to Alameda, CA in 1945. Diller began her career as writer and women's editor for the San Leandro News-Observer . From June 1951 to 1954, Diller's jobs included: head of newspaper and radio ad copy in t...

Knotts, Don, 1924-2006

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Alpert, Herb, 1935-

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Herb Alpert (b. March 31, 1935, Los Angeles, CA) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram. Alpert is also a painter and sculpter. Alpert's musical accomplishments include five No. 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Albu...

Greene, Lorne, 1915-1987

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Landon, Michael, 1936-1991

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Day, Doris, 1922-

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Doris Day (b. April 3, 1922, Cincinnati, OH) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Her film career began with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. Day stared in the successful sitcom, The Doris Day Show....

Blocker, Dan, 1928-1972

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Dan Blocker (b. December 10, 1928, DeKalb, TX – d. May 13, 1972, Los Angeles, CA) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran. He is best remembered for his role as Hoss Cartwright in the television series Bonanza....

Douglas, Kirk, 1916-

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Hope, Bob, 1903-2003

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Bob Hope (b. May 29, 1903, London, England–d. July 27, 2003, Los Angeles, CA) was a star of radio, film, television and stage during the 1940-1970's. He acted, song and danced through much of WW II entertaining troops. He continued entertaining troops though Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Additionally, Hope made many guest appearances on television as well as hosting his own specials. ...

Martin, Dick, 1922-2008

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Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012

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Andy Griffith was born in Mount Airy, N.C., on 1 June 1926. He attended the University of North Carolina and was graduated in 1949. As an actor, he quickly gained fame through his portrayal of an illiterate hillbilly in the Broadway and film versions of No Time for Sergeants (1955). He also used this character in monologues such as What it Was Was Football and in appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show . Although he continued to appear in films ( A Face in the Crowd in 1956 and Onionhead in 1958), i...

Peppard, George, 1928-1994

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Heston, Charlton, 1923-2008

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Charlton Heston (b. Oct. 4, 1923-d. Apr. 5, 2008), American actor of film, theater and television. From the description of Heston, Charlton, 1923-2008 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582407 ...