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Malaya is a 1949 American war thriller film set in colonial Malaya during World War II directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Valentina Cortese. The supporting cast features Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, and Lionel Barrymore, with Richard Loo and Gilbert Roland. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The same year, he was cast as Duncan Glowrie in the episode "Bonnie Lassie" of The Gale Storm Show. From 1955 to 1958, he appeared three times on the sitcom The People's Choice . In 1957, Wilcox guest-starred in the episode "Quicksilver" of Sugarfoot , as a young frontier law student.
Initially using the same name as at CKLW-TV, Bill Kennedy's Showtime, the WKBD program would be renamed Bill Kennedy at the Movies by the start of 1972. [3] Kennedy would host films for WKBD until retiring to Florida in 1983. On his afternoon TV program, he showed old movies and provided anecdotes about the actors and the production of the movies.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The 1949–50 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1949 through March 1950. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1948–49 season. This was ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calamity Jane and Sam Bass: George Sherman: Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart: Western: Universal: Canadian Pacific: Edwin L. Marin: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish
The Aldrich Family is an American television situation comedy that was broadcast on NBC from October 2, 1949, through September 12, 1953. [1] Adapted from the radio program of the same name, which was based on Clifford Goldsmith's Broadway play What a Life (1938), [2] it was the first successful situation comedy on NBC television. [3]
Beginning in the 1940s, critics began to take notice of his acting, and he was praised for his supporting roles in John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He also appeared in a series of films in the mid-1940s as the popular character "The Cisco Kid".