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|  | | Lloyd Nolan: An Actor's Life With meaning
Actor Lloyd Nolan's home life was just as interesting as his screen life. Who would have known that his off-screen efforts would improve the lives of many?
Lloyd Nolan could play any character in any genre and was believable in every role. He was not acting; he was just real. He u>was/u> Michael Shayne in those Fox films. He u>was/u> Inspector Briggs in Ti>he House on 92nd Street/i> and Ti>he Street With No Name. /i>He u>was/u> Dr. Swain in i>Peyton Place/i> and, even as a bad guy, he u>was/u> Lt. De Garmot in i>Lady in the Lake/i>.
Nolan's off-screen life was just as remarkable. He was devoted to his autistic son Jay and, when young Jay died in an accident 2500 miles away, Lloyd | |  | | No Retakes!
Actors and actresses remember the golden era of live television. Voted Best TV Book of 2009 by Classic Images magazine!
font size="3">That's right! Can you imagine flubbing your line in front of the whole country without a chance to try again to make it right? That's what it was like back in the 1940s and 1950s. Week after week we saw these brave actors and actresses take on the challenge, and they did an amazing job. br />
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Wright King was there on our screens in such shows as Studio One, Robert Montgomery Presents, and Kraft Television Theatre, and has fond memories of those exciting days. He and his fellow actors tell us the circumstances that led them to their first live television production, | |  | | Pat Buttram, the Rocking Chair Humorist
The life story of Pat Buttram, known best as Gene Autry's sidekick, Mr. Haney on "Green Acres," and a very recognizable voice in many Disney animated movies.
div>font size="3">Pat Buttram is known by today's youth as the yodel-y voice in the Disney animated films The Rescuers, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound, The Aristocats and A Goofy Movie. To their parents, he's Mr. Haney, the hilarious con-man from Green Acres; and to their grandparents, he's Gene Autry's humorous sidekick. Pat was one of Hollywood's truest success stories. He lived his dream of making people laugh, winning honors from the The Pacific Pioneers Broadcaster's award all the way up to an Emmy, and everyone who knew him loved him. No one could keep an audience laughing as well a | |  | | Plain Beautiful: The Life of Peggy Ann Garner
The life story of Oscar-winning child star of the 1940s, Peggy Ann Garner.
font size="3">Coming into our hearts first as the young Jane Eyre, twelve-year-old Peggy Ann Garner then proceeded to give an Oscar-winning performance in the 1945 film em>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/em>. The studio execs were so pleased that they then put her in a movie bought especially for her, Junior Miss. Before long, however, the studio system broke up, throwing many contract players out on the streets. Peggy was among them. She took her talents to the stage and ended up on Broadway. We also saw her in many top television series over the next few decades: em>Studio One, The US Steel | |  | | Spotlights & Shadows: The Albert Salmi Story
The life story of character actor Albert Salmi. Voted Book of the Year 2004 by Classic Images magazine.
You know the face. You know the credit list: i>Lost in Space, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Kung Fu, The Twilight Zone /i>and hundreds more... But who was Albert Salmi? Born of Finnish parents in the Finnish section of Brooklyn, Albert Salmi had a childhood he would recall fondly, even though it was plagued by the hardships of the Great Depression. In an attempt to earn money as a teenager, he broke the law; and the very wise judge gave him a sentence that turned his life around. Salmi set his sights for an acting career and, thanks to the GI Bill, got the best tr |
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