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Jack Finney

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Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. [1]

82 relations: Adam Ant, Advertising agency, Amazing Stories (TV series), Anthony Franciosa, Assault on a Queen, Bid Time Return, Body Snatchers (1993 film), Brian Keith, California, Campbell Scott, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Civic Center, Manhattan, Comedy, Dan Curtis, David Dukes, Don DeFore, Dorothy Provine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Estelle Parsons, Fifth Avenue, Frank Sinatra, Fresh Air, From Time to Time (novel), Galesburg, Illinois, Glenn Close, Good Neighbor Sam, Greenbrae, California, Guy Madison, House of Numbers (1957 film), Hypnosis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film), Jack Lemmon, Jack Palance, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kim Novak, Knox College (Illinois), Library of Congress, Mandy Patinkin, Manhattan, Marcia Strassman, Maxie (film), Mill Valley, California, Milwaukee, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, Noir fiction, Novelist, Of Missing Persons, Phil Karlson, ..., Pneumonia, Richard Matheson, RMS Queen Mary, Romy Schneider, Rudolph Fentz, Ruth Gordon, Science fiction, Science Fiction Theatre, Self-hypnosis, SF Site, Short story, Somewhere in Time (film), St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan), Steven Spielberg, Such Interesting Neighbors, Television film, The Body Snatchers, The Invasion (film), The Love Letter (1998 film), The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Thriller (genre), Time and Again (novel), Time travel, Virna Lisi, Warren Stevens, World Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Convention, 1956 in film, 1998 in film, 5 Against the House. Expand index (32 more) »

Adam Ant

Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard; 3 November 1954) is an English singer and musician.

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Advertising agency

An advertising agency, often referred to as a creative agency, is a business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising and sometimes other forms of promotion and marketing for its clients.

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Amazing Stories (TV series)

Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg.

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Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo, October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006), usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor.

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Assault on a Queen

Assault on a Queen is a 1966 American action-adventure film, directed by Jack Donohue, starring Frank Sinatra and Virna Lisi.

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Bid Time Return

Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson.

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Body Snatchers (1993 film)

Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whitaker.

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Brian Keith

Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the Disney family film The Parent Trap (1961), the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and the adventure saga The Wind and the Lion (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Campbell Scott

Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term breathing problems and poor airflow.

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Civic Center, Manhattan

The Civic Center is the area of lower Manhattan, New York City, that encompasses New York City Hall, One Police Plaza, the courthouses in Foley Square, and the surrounding area.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series Dark Shadows and TV films such as Trilogy of Terror.

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David Dukes

David Coleman Dukes (June 6, 1945 – October 9, 2000) was an American character actor.

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Don DeFore

Donald John DeFore (August 25, 1913 – December 22, 1993) was an American film, radio, and television actor.

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Dorothy Provine

Dorothy Michelle Provine (January 20, 1935 – April 25, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedian.

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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction.

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Estelle Parsons

Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American actress, singer and stage director.

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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Fresh Air

Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985.

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From Time to Time (novel)

From Time to Time is a 1995 illustrated novel by American writer Jack Finney, the sequel to Time and Again, which tells the story of how Simon Morley, working on a secret government project in 1970, was able to travel back in time to the New York City of 1882.

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Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.

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Glenn Close

Glenda Veronica Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress, singer and film producer.

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Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American Eastman Color comedy film co-written and directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine and Michael Connors.

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Greenbrae, California

Greenbrae is a small unincorporated community in Marin County, California.

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Guy Madison

Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley, January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film and television actor.

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House of Numbers (1957 film)

House of Numbers is a 1957 classic American film noir, based on author Jack Finney's 1957 novel of the same name, starring Jack Palance and Barbara Lang.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, that stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy.

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) professionally known as Jack Lemmon, was an American actor and musician.

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Jack Palance

Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk (Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor and singer.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress.

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Kim Novak

Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is a retired American film and television actress.

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Knox College (Illinois)

Knox College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Mandy Patinkin

Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marcia Strassman

Marcia Ann Strassman (April 28, 1948 – October 24, 2014) was an American actress and singer, best known for her roles as Nurse Margie Cutler on M*A*S*H, as Julie Kotter on Welcome Back, Kotter, and as Diane Szalinski in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989).

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Maxie (film)

Maxie is a 1985 American fantasy film directed by Paul Aaron, and starring Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Valerie Curtin, Ruth Gordon, and Barnard Hughes.

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Mill Valley, California

Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Noir fiction

Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a literary genre closely related to hardboiled genre, with a distinction that the protagonist is not a detective, but instead either a victim, a suspect, or a perpetrator.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Of Missing Persons

"Of Missing Persons" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Jack Finney, which describes a burned-out bank teller named Charley Ewell living in 1955 New York City who receives a chance to emigrate from Earth to Verna, a lush, earthlike planet light-years away.

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Phil Karlson

Phil Karlson (born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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RMS Queen Mary

The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service.

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Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a film actress born in Vienna who held German and French citizenship.

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Rudolph Fentz

Rudolph Fentz (also spelled as Rudolf Fenz) is the focal character of "I'm Scared", a 1952 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which was later reported as an urban legend as if the events had truly happened.

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Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science-fiction anthology series syndicated and broadcast from 1955 to 1957.

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Self-hypnosis

Self-hypnosis or auto-hypnosis (as distinct from hetero-hypnosis) is a form, a process, or the result of a self-induced hypnotic state.

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SF Site

SF Site is a science fiction online magazine edited by Rodger Turner.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Somewhere in Time (film)

Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American romantic science fiction drama film directed by Jeannot Szwarc.

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St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Such Interesting Neighbors

Such Interesting Neighbors is a science fiction short story by American writer Jack Finney, first published in 1951.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Body Snatchers

The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes real-life Mill Valley, California, being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space.

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The Invasion (film)

The Invasion is a 2007 American science fiction horror film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by The Wachowskis and directed by James McTeigue, and starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.

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The Love Letter (1998 film)

The Love Letter is a 1998 Hallmark Hall of Fame television film directed by Dan Curtis starring Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.

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Time and Again (novel)

Time and Again is a 1970 illustrated novel by American writer Jack Finney.

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Time travel

Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine.

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Virna Lisi

Virna Pieralisi (8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), better known as Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress.

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Warren Stevens

Warren Albert Stevens (November 2, 1919 – March 27, 2012) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.

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World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year.

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World Fantasy Convention

The World Fantasy Convention is an annual convention of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of fantasy.

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1956 in film

The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1998 in film

The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including; Shakespeare in Love (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, ''Rushmore'', Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line.

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5 Against the House

5 Against the House is a 1955 American heist film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring Guy Madison, Brian Keith, and Kim Novak, in one of her first film appearances.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney

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