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📽 1956: The King and Four Queens starring Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jean Willes, Sara Shane and Jo Van Fleet

• The four McDade brothers stage a successful heist, except that three of them are killed. When their wives and mother (Van Fleet) learn that only one of the young men survived with the loot, they are eager to find out which one.

Slick traveler Dan Kehoe (Gable) catches wind of this strange situation and decides to charm the four women, Sabina (Parker) Birdie (Nichols) Ruby (Willes) and Oralie (Shane) in hopes of eventually enjoying the spoils.

Before long, however, the lonely females begin competing for Dan, disintegrating into a cut-throat battle royal for his heart. (United Artists)

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The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in theaters on February 5, 1956. The movie was based on the serial story "The Body Snatchers" published in Collier's Magazine by Jack Kinney. In 1994 the film about alien pods replacing people with clones was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registery. A framing device was added post production as the studio feared ending the movie on a downbeat and uncertain note. They also forced the production to remove all the humorous lines and beats from the production as they felt a movie couldn't both be humorous and horror. ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers", Movie Event)

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Bat Masterson - Double Showdown - NBC - October 8, 1958

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Teleplay by Gene Levitt

Produced by Frank Pittman and Andy White

Directed by Walter Doniger

Stars:

Gene Barry as William Barclay "Bat" Masterson

Robert Middleton as Big Keel Roberts

Jean Willes as Lucy Slater

Elisha Cook Jr. as Pete Sheeley

Adele Mara as Maria Costa

King Donovan as Shorty Keenan

Charles Maxwell as Marshall Ed Caulder

K. L. Smith as Chuck

William Vaughan as Nelson

Stephen Wooton as Sandy

Richard Warren as Townsman

Quentin Sondergaard as Townsman

Leon Alton as Older Card Player

Troy Melton as Man Holding Gun on Shorty

Harry Raybould as Card Player

James Winslow as Townsman

Sean Meaney as Townsman

Nick Nicoll as Townsman

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel

December 2nd 2023

[angelstills]

Desire Under the Elms (1958)

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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1989

Lucille Ball at 77 from heart disease

Bette Davis at 81 from cancer

Silvana Mangano at 59 from cancer

Juliette Compton at 89 from cardiac arrest

Joan Woodbury at 73 from tuberculosis

Amanda Blake at 60 from liver failure

Jean Willes at 65 from cancer

Lucy Doraine at 91 from natural causes

Lynn Bari at 75 from heart attack

Dona Drake at 74 from pneumonia

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2.28 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“You've heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now, and you'll be part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle, no, their task is even harder. They've got to find a martian in a diner...”

[mariocki]

5 Against the House (1955)

"You know, they charge double fares for bodies."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Just that. A body has to have two tickets on a train or a plane. There's a regulation about it somewhere."

"That's an example of real positive thinking."