Clark Gable

In 1957, she, Sidney Poitier, and Clark Gable were paired together in the Band of Angels. Also during that exact year, she made her album “Yvonne De Carlo Sings,” go public. From the late 1950s and early 1960s, she made appearances on several TV series such as The Virginian and McLintock, starring…

from colonization by the British (1841-1997) to the subsequent handover into a Special Administrative Region of China in 1997. The building has also been featured in several world-renowned films and television series throughout the years, such as Clark Gable’s Soldier of Fortune (1955) and Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon…

simple “chick flick” or “date movie,” there are some that portray significant conflicts that relates to the real world. It Happened One Night is a romantic comedy, with components of screwball comedy, directed by Frank Capra in 1934 and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (“It Happened One Night”). The movie follows a runaway heiress and reporter as they travel to reunite her with her fiancé, but they fall for each other instead. Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy directed by Garry…

had also published a detailed paper on the derrieres of famous cowboys which had resulted in his whole family thinking he was gay. He was as Myra explains, misunderstood because even though he was attracted to men, particularly famous actors like Clark Gable, he also admired women, a case in point being his absolute adoration of Lana Turner. When he reemerges as Myra, he is still attracted to men but also takes a shine to Mary-Ann, musing at one point in the book that she would even sleep with a…

Young Goodman Brown Ever heard of Nathaniel Hawthorne? “Young Goodman Brown”? The Scarlet Letter? Born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hathorne (named after his father) was born to an Elizabeth Clark Hathorne and Nathaniel Hathorne. His father being a fisherman meant being raised by his mother a majority of his childhood and throughout the rest of his childhood after 1808 when his father died at sea from yellow fever. Hathorne, his mother, and two girls being left alone…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

“I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.” When Mindy Kaling included these words, in her humorous biographical book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me, she likely did not consider genre theory in her analysis. Romantic comedy is the genre of choice for Mindy Kaling and other people looking for cheesy humor and a “meet cute” scenario, leading to an idealistic love connection capable of…

All the great design houses are unveiling their Spring and Fall lines for 2007. While it would be wonderful to be able to drop several thousand dollars on a jacket or skirt, it just isn't feasible for most shoppers when they consider the fact that the garment they buy this season will be out of style next season. It will be the fashion world's equivalent to what your wrap fish in - yesterday's news. Fashion trends and designers are fickle creatures. Sure, whatever you buy this year may be back…

1. Summary: The film Gone with the Wind starts before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Scarlett lives at Tara with her parents and two sisters. She finds out Ashley, the man she loves, is engaged to Melanie. She decides to reveal her feeling to him in private, but he rejects her by pointing out their incompatibility. To her surprise, there is a third person present, Rhett Butler, who have heard all the conversation between them and her confession to him. Scarlett is irritated and starts…

Introduction With exception of war, no event has caused as much upheaval to American security, and its way of life than that of the Great Depression. Following the stock market crash of 1929, and spanning the entire decade of the 1930’s, this period saw at its height, a quarter of Americans out of work, with many barely able to feed themselves or their families. This period also saw many businesses that once flourished, shut their doors forever. However, one industry that still managed to…