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71 relations: Action Comics, Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones, Aly Khan, Ancestry.com, Anne Edwards, April in Paris Ball, Aristotle Onassis, Assistant director, Call Me Madam, Carl Van Vechten, Cholly Knickerbocker, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon, Duke of Windsor, Edgar Bergen, Esther B. Aresty, Ethel Merman, Fanny Brice, Ferncliff Cemetery, Gossip columnist, Herald & Review, Hotel for Women, I Like to Recognize the Tune, I Love Lucy, Irving Berlin, Island of the Mad, Jack Webb, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, June Cleaver, Kansas City Times, Keokuk, Iowa, Laurie R. King, Leave It to Beaver, Loretta Swit, Macmillan Publishers, Main Street to Broadway, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Jane Croft, Mignon, Mike Wallace, New York Dramatic Mirror, Noël Coward, Panama Hattie, Public Deb No. 1, Rex Stout, Rhapsody in Blue (film), Rita Hayworth, Rodgers and Hart, ... Expand index (21 more) »
Action Comics
Action Comics is an American comic book/magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters.
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Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
María Aline Griffith (y) Dexter, Countess of Romanones (22 May 1923 – 11 December 2017) was an American-born Spanish aristocrat, socialite, and writer who worked in the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and later for the CIA as a spy.
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Aly Khan
Prince Aly Salomone Khan (13 June 1911 – 12 May 1960), known as Aly Khan, was a socialite and ambassador for Pakistan.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.
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Anne Edwards
Anne Edwards (August 20, 1927 – January 20, 2024) was an American writer best known for her biographies, including those of celebrities such as Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and royalty including Matriarch Queen Mary of Teck, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana and Countess Sonya Tolstoy.
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April in Paris Ball
The April in Paris Ball was an annual US gala event whose mission was to serve charity and Franco-American relations.
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Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (Aristotélis Onásis,; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine business magnate.
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Assistant director
The role of an assistant director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set.
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Call Me Madam
Call Me Madam is a Broadway musical written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
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Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
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Cholly Knickerbocker
Cholly Knickerbocker is a pseudonym used by a series of society columnists writing for papers including the New York American and its successor, the New York Journal-American.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.
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Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon
Dorothy Mary "Dickie" Fellowes-Gordon (3 August 1891 – 11 August 1991) was a British socialite, coal industry heiress and singer.
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Duke of Windsor
Duke of Windsor was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer.
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Esther B. Aresty
Esther B. Aresty (March 26, 1908 — December 23, 2000) was a cookbook collector and culinary historian who wrote on cooking, cookbooks, cuisine, and etiquette.
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Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.
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Fanny Brice
Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances.
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Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is a cemetery in Greenburgh, New York, United States, about north of Midtown Manhattan.
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Gossip columnist
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine.
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Herald & Review
The Herald & Review is a daily newspaper based in Decatur, Illinois.
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Hotel for Women
Hotel for Women (or Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women) is a 1939 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, and James Ellison.
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I Like to Recognize the Tune
"I Like to Recognize the Tune" is an American popular song written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart.
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I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter.
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Island of the Mad
Island of the Mad is a 2018 mystery novel by American author Laurie R. King.
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Jack Webb
John Randolph Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, most famous for his role as Joe Friday in the ''Dragnet'' franchise, which he created.
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Jerry Siegel
Jerome Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996)Roger Stern.
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Joe Shuster
Joseph Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938).
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June Cleaver
June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver is a principal character in the American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver.
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Kansas City Times
The Kansas City Times was a morning newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri, published from 1867 to 1990.
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Keokuk, Iowa
Keokuk is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States.
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Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King (born September 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her detective fiction.
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Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, his family and his friends.
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Loretta Swit
Loretta Jane Swit (born Loretta Jane Szwed; November 4, 1937) is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles.
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Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
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Main Street to Broadway
Main Street to Broadway is a 1953 American romantic musical comedy-drama film by independent producer Lester Cowan, his final credit, in collaboration with The Council of the Living Theatre, which provided tie-up with a number of well-known Broadway names.
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Maria Callas
Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.
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Mary Jane Croft
Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916 – August 24, 1999) was an American actress best known for roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Miss Daisy Enright on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks, Mary Jane Lewis on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, and Clara Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
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Mignon
Mignon is an 1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas.
Mike Wallace
Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.
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New York Dramatic Mirror
The New York Dramatic Mirror (1879–1922) was an American theatrical trade newspaper published in New York City.
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Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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Panama Hattie
Panama Hattie is a 1940 American musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva.
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Public Deb No. 1
Public Deb No.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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Rhapsody in Blue (film)
Rhapsody in Blue, subtitled The story of George Gershwin is a 1945 American biographical film about composer and musician George Gershwin, released by Warner Brothers.
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Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.
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Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943).
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Rudy Vallée
Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Scavenger hunt
A scavenger hunt is a game in which the organizers prepare a list defining specific items, which the participants seek to gather or complete all items on the list, usually without purchasing them.
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Sherry!
Sherry! is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Lipton and music by Laurence Rosenthal.
Short film
A short film is a film with a low running time.
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Stage Door Canteen (film)
Stage Door Canteen is a 1943 American World War II film with musical numbers and other entertainment interspersed with dramatic scenes by a largely unknown cast.
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Sunset Boulevard (film)
Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress.
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The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.
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The Second Confession
The Second Confession is a detective novel by American author Rex Stout, featuring the character Nero Wolfe.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tom Adair
Thomas Montgomery Adair (June 15, 1913 – May 24, 1988) was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.
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Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era.
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Too Many Girls (musical)
Too Many Girls is a Broadway musical comedy which was adapted for a 1940 film version starring Lucille Ball.
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Vaughn Meader
Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian, impersonator, musician, and film actor.
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Venice Lido
The Lido, or Venice Lido (Lido di Venezia), is an barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents.
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Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (born Vivian Roberta Jones; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American actress best known for playing Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other accolades.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Wallis Simpson
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former king Edward VIII.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (born Sári Gábor; February 6, 1917 – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress. Her sisters were socialites and actresses Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor. Gabor competed in the 1933 Miss Hungary pageant, where she placed as second runner-up, and began her stage career in Vienna the following year.
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