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By the time electronic television matured in the late 1930s, some more varied experimental programs, including live sportscasts and some game shows (such as the CBS Television Quiz and Truth or Consequences), were appearing; most television service was suspended beginning in 1942 because of World War II. The decade-long period of new ...
In 1940, she was the guest-starring lead in The New Pupil when cast as Sally, who briefly takes "Alfalfa" (played by Carl Switzer) away from Darla Hood. Two years later, she reprised the character in Going to Press (1942), the only time in the MGM era where the female lead was played by someone other than Darla Hood (who had recently left the ...
Linda Gray September 12, 1940 (age 84) Macy Gray September 6, 1967 (age 57) Sprague Grayden July 21, 1980 (age 44) Jenna Leigh Green August 22, 1974 (age 50) Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush; Ashley Greene February 21, 1987 (age 37) Ellen Greene February 22, 1950 (age 74)
Jeanne Carmen 1930–2007; Julie Carmen born () April 4, 1954 (age 70) Sue Carol 1906–1982; Charisma Carpenter born () July 23, 1970 (age 54) Jennifer Carpenter born () December 7, 1979 (age 45) Sabrina Carpenter born () May 11, 1999 (age 25) Ever Carradine born () August 6, 1974 (age 50)
Pam North is wife of publisher Jerry and solves murders with him, in: newspaper vignettes and short stories written in the 1930s; a Broadway play and a film in the early 1940s; novels 1940–1963; and TV dramas 1946 and 1952–1954. Richard Lockridge created newspaper pieces and short stories, and co-wrote novels with wife Frances.
In 1930, she starred in the comedy short film The Lucky Break with Harry Fox and in July 1930, Film Daily announced that Farrell had been cast as the female lead, Olga Stassoff, in director Mervyn LeRoy's gangster film Little Caesar. The movie was Farrell's first major film role, co-starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Young made as many as eight movies a year, and her films in the 1940s were among the best regarded and most memorable of her career. Young with Orson Welles in The Stranger (1946) In 1946, Young made The Stranger , in which she plays a small-town American woman who unknowingly marries a Nazi fugitive ( Orson Welles ).
Woman's films usually portray stereotypical women's concerns such as domestic life, family, motherhood, self-sacrifice, and romance. [2] These films were produced from the silent era through the 1950s and early 1960s, but were most popular in the 1930s and 1940s, reaching their zenith during World War II.