Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cue cards were originally used to aid aging actors. One early use was by John Barrymore in the late 1930s. Cue cards did not become widespread until 1949 when Barney McNulty, [3] a CBS page and former military pilot, was asked to write ailing actor Ed Wynn's script lines on large sheets of paper to help him remember his script. McNulty ...
Feresten's first cue card handling job was in 1990 during a "Sprockets" sketch featuring host Kyle MacLachlan. [3] His first appearance on camera was in 1991 during a monologue featuring Steve Martin. Feresten had his first spoken lines on the show in 1993 during an Alec Baldwin monologue. [4] Feresten became the cue card handler for Last Call ...
The staffers included announcer Alan Kalter, "cue card boy" Tony "Inky" Mendez (who showed cue cards to President Kennedy), costume designer Susan Hum (whose actions included taking his picture with a disposable camera, removing lint from his shoulder, stealing his wallet, and eating a jumbo pretzel), associate producer Nancy Agostini, and ...
On Friday, Nov. 29, the actress revealed she recently came face-to-face with a group of construction workers holding up cue cards – just like her costar Andrew Lincoln did in Love Actually.
Richard Curtis, director of beloved 2003 Christmas romcom Love Actually, has revealed that the show’s famous cue card scene could have been very different. The film stars an ensemble cast ...
A cue mark, also known as a cue dot, a cue blip, a changeover cue [a] or simply a cue, is a visual indicator used with motion picture film prints, usually placed in the upper right corner of a film frame. [1] Cue dots are also used as a visual form of signalling on television broadcasts.
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Letterman's longtime cue-card holder says he wound up cuing his own firing by getting aggressive with a colleague. Tony Mendez tells the New York Post in a story published ...
A gag where Daffy is on a pay phone as Von Vultur is trying to get into the booth has Daffy speaking to him in semi-correct German, while holding cue card–like signs with the dialogue translated for the audience (a classic example of "breaking the fourth wall"). In many public domain prints, the signs are illegible, but read as follows: