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Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from 1959 to 1960. The title character, played by John Vivyan , was an honest professional gambler who used his plush floating casino, the ship Fortuna, as his base of operations.
Mr. Lucky is a 1943 romance film directed by H.C. Potter, starring Cary Grant and Laraine Day. It recounts the tale of an attraction between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the days prior to the United States entering World War II .
The show was an immediate success, helped considerably by the Henry Mancini theme music and the presence of actor Ross Martin as "Andamo", Mr. Lucky's sidekick. Mr. Lucky had his gambling operation on a yacht called Fortuna II, anchored just beyond the then 3 mile legal limit for a major California port. Tom Brown played "Lt. Rovacs", a police ...
Hagerty was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 10, 1954. [1] [2] His family was Irish Catholic, and his father worked as a police officer. [3]Hagerty completed his primary education at St. Cajetan Elementary School in 1968, [4] before attending Marist High School in his hometown. [3]
Lucky visits a pet store and buys a box of crickets. Lucky meets Fred, a World War II Marine veteran, and mentions his time in the US Navy during the war in the Pacific. Lucky got his nickname from having the relatively safe job of cook on an LST. (In his own life, the actor Stanton did a stint as a cook aboard the USS LST-970, in World War II ...
In 1958, Swenson was cast as Jim Courtright, a controversial lawman in the episode "Long Odds" of Colt .45. From 1958 through 1961, he had various roles in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel and Maverick (1957–1962). His first Maverick episode was "The Wrecker", a seafaring adventure based upon a story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
"Saturday Night Live" alum Jon Lovitz recalled working with Joe Rogan on the '90s NBC sitcom, "NewsRadio," describing the top podcaster as "really smart" and "highly informed."
Martin was born to a Polish Jewish family in Gródek, Poland, (now Horodok, Ukraine).He and his parents immigrated to New York City when he was an infant. [1] Recorded as Izak and Sara Rosenblat and infant son Marcus, they boarded the steamship New Rochelle at Danzig, which was then a Free City under the League of Nations; the ship sailed on August 29, 1920, and arrived at the Port of New York ...