Red Skelton
Author: Arthur Marx
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores intricacies of a clown and loved comedian.
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Red Skelton
Author: Wes Gehring
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0871952750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For twenty years, Hoosier comic Red Skelton entertained millions of viewers who gathered around their television sets to delight in the antics of his notable characters. Gehring examines the man behind the characters-- someone who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. He delves into Skelton's hardscrabble life with a shockingly dysfunctional family in the southern Indiana community of Vincennes, his days on the road on the vaudeville circuit, the comedian's early success on radio, his up-and-down movie career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his sometimes tragic personal life.
A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971
Author: Wesley Hyatt
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 147660875X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Red Skelton Show was on the air for 20 years, the longest-running primetime network comedy variety series on television. It was a top 10 series for nine years--an accomplishment surpassed only by Gunsmoke and Home Improvement. The series has a few unimpressive achievements too, such as becoming the first top 10 series to be cancelled by a network. Here is the history of The Red Skelton Show, beginning with its debut in 1951, one of the top five that year. The show then declined in popularity, moved from CBS to NBC in 1953, slowly rose back to the top. In its glory days of the 1960s it became an hour long show and finished at number two in two different years. The cancellation of the show by CBS in 1970 despite its place in the top 10 was a surprise; the last season back with NBC was a failure. Appendices list cast and crew credits and special guests by season, and offer information on the post-Red Skelton lives of many of the principal players.
Red Skelton
Author: Wes Gehring
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0871953552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than twenty years, Hoosier comic Red Skelton entertained millions of viewers who gathered around their television sets to delight in the antics of such notable characters as Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kaddiddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg, and Sheriff Deadeye. Noted film historian Wes D. Gehring examines the man behind the characters—someone who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Gehring delves into Skelton's hardscrabble life with a shockingly dysfunctional family in the southern Indiana community of Vincennes, his days on the road on the vaudeville circuit, the comedian's early success on radio, his up-and-down movie career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his sometimes tragic personal life.
S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
Author: David C. Tucker
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-01-29
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1476682194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S. Sylvan Simon (1910-1951) directed and/or produced more than 40 films, with stars like Lana Turner, Abbott and Costello, and Wallace Beery. Though he loved to make moviegoers laugh, he demonstrated his versatility with murder mysteries, war stories, and musicals. After a decade at MGM, he moved to Columbia, where he produced his own projects, including the Western melodrama Lust for Gold, and popular slapstick comedies like The Fuller Brush Girl. As head of production, reporting to irascible Harry Cohn, he produced the award-winning Born Yesterday, and was working on From Here to Eternity when his life ended tragically at the age of 41. This first-ever account of Simon's life and career draws on interviews with family and colleagues, genealogical records, archival materials, and his own annotated scripts to tell the story of a stage-struck boy from Pittsburgh whose talent and tenacity made him a Hollywood success. The filmography provides production histories, critical commentary, and excerpts from published reviews. An appendix covers books written or edited by Simon, including his anthologized plays for amateur groups.
And May God Bless
Author: Ruth Ann Comer
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1644686643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Read about sixty-nine years of miracle after miracle. How I survived numerous unimaginable traumas, illnesses, surgeries, mental illness, and suicide attempts. The book begins at age twenty-one, just married, suffered kidney failure, having emergency surgery afterward being pronounced dead, ending up in heaven. My return from heaven finds I am now terminally ill with only a year to live if I do not get pregnant. But God! Also how I, as a little girl, hunted for the God of the “and may God bless” and finding him. See how depending on God brings me to sanity, even supernatural physical healing throughout all my troubles, suffering, responsibilities, and laced with spiritual warfare.
Favorite Ghost Stories
Author: Aidan Chambers
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2002-09
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780753455920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A terrific introduction to classic literature for children, the Story Library series has received much acclaim.
The Great Clowns of American Television
Author: Karin Adir
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780786413034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are generations that have never seen Sid Caesar become an automobile tire or Red Skelton stick his thumbs in his armpits and intone, "Two theagulls...," never journeyed with Ernie Kovacs to a surrealistic world of his warped imagination. Here seventeen comic talents are profiled (with photographs): their early years, marriages and personal challenges, anecdotes about them, the characters they created, their styles, and often representative dialogue or sketch descriptions. There is a listing of all television shows in which each comic starred (giving length, network, air dates). The comics include Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Tim Conway, Jackie Gleason, Danny Kaye, Ernie Kovacs, Olsen and Johnson, Martha Raye, Soupy Sales, Red Skelton, Dick Van Dyke, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters, and Ed Wynn.
Billboard
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Publisher:
Published: 1967-10-28
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Endymion Spring
Author: Matthew Skelton
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2006-08-22
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0375841997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine." In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page--words no one but the boy can see. And so unfolds a timeless secret . . . .
