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The film stars Jack Bailey, Jim Morgan, Fort Pearson, Melanie York, Cynthia Corley, Kay Wiley and Helen Mowery. The film was released on July 7, 1951 by United Artists. [1] [2] [3] The film is related to Queen for a Day, an American quiz show that aired on radio beginning in 1945 and on television, hosted by Bailey, from 1956–64.
In U.S. criminal law, a proffer agreement, proffer letter, proffer, or "Queen for a Day" letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against him or her.
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America.Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
Queen for a Day was an American radio and television game show that helped to usher in American listeners' and viewers' fascination with big-prize giveaway shows. [1] Queen for a Day originated on the Mutual Radio Network on April 30, 1945, in New York City before moving to Los Angeles a few months later and ran until 1957. The show then ran on ...
The prison camp set was built on the John Show Ranch in Woodland Hills, on the southwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. [5] The shoot began in February 1952, during the rainy season in California, providing plenty of mud for the camp compound. [6] It is now the location of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"Queen for a Day", a song by Donna Summer from the 1977 album Once Upon a Time "Queen for a Day" (Parts 1 & 2), two songs by Blackmore's Night from the 2003 album Ghost of a Rose "Queen for a Day", a song by Dance Hall Crashers from the 1995 album Lockjaw; Queen for a Day, a 2016 album by Anouk
A former vaudeville musician and World's Fair barker, [2] Bailey is best remembered as the host of Queen for a Day, a daytime game show which first aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1945 and later moved to television, where it ran locally in the Los Angeles area from 1948 through 1955, on the NBC Television network from January 3, 1956 to September 2, 1960, and on the ABC network from ...
Rescue Dawn is a 2006 epic war drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on the true story of Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), a German-American pilot who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.