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21 hours ago · Recorded December 8, 1941. Franklin Delano Roosevelt[ a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
21 hours ago · Website. oscars .org. The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [ 1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [ 2]
21 hours ago · Batman Beyond (titled Batman of the Future in European territories) is an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman.Created and developed by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, and Alan Burnett and produced by Warner Bros. Television Animation, [2] the series began airing on January 10, 1999 on Kids' WB, and ended on December 18, 2001 on Cartoon Network.
21 hours ago · Posted on August 3, 2024 - Writer's Almanac. It’s the birthday of one of America’s first embedded reporters, Ernie Pyle, born Ernest Taylor Pyle in a little white farmhouse near Dana, Indiana (1900). In the fall of 1940, Pyle went to London to travel around with Yank troops, and they went to Africa, Italy, and France.
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Conried was born on April 15, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents Edith Beryl (née Gildersleeve) and Hans Georg Conried. His Connecticut-born mother was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, Austria. He was raised in Baltimore and in New York City.[citation needed]
Conried studied acting at Columbia University and went on to play major classical roles onstage. This led him into radio in 1937, when he appeared in a supporting role in a broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew on KECA in Los Angeles, California. Four years later, a newspaper reported about his role on Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: "But at the mike, he'...
Theodor Geisel, better known as children's author Dr. Seuss, was preparing a documentary feature largely made up of captured Japanese newsreel footage, Design for Death (1948). Geisel hired actor Kent Smith as the "American" narrator, and Hans Conried as the "Japanese" narrator. The film won an Academy Award.[citation needed] Geisel remembered Conr...
Conried's colorful voice gained him much work in animated cartoons, such as Disney and Jay Ward. His prominent work for Disney was in Walt Disney's Peter Pan as both Captain Hook and Mr. Darling (following the tradition of having both characters portrayed by the same actor). He then went on to pose live-action reference and audition for Aurora's fa...
From 1955 to 1964, Conried made 19 guest appearances as "Uncle Tonoose" in Make Room for Daddyon ABC and then CBS, and four appearances as other characters. He was featured in the 1958 episode, "What Makes Opera Grand?", on the anthology series Omnibus. The episode, an analysis by Leonard Bernstein, showing the powerful effect of music in opera, fe...
Conried had a long history of heart problems and had a stroke in 1974 and a mild heart attack in 1979. He remained active until his death on January 5, 1982, one day after suffering a major heart attack.His body was donated to medical science.
Maltin, Leonard (2015) [First published 1969]. "Hans Conried". The Real Stars : Profiles and Interviews of Hollywood's Unsung Featured Players (softcover) (Sixth / eBook ed.). Great Britain: Create...
6 hours ago · One commenter added: 'This scared the hell out of me. I blinked they were 'normal' and then distorted.' Meanwhile another wrote: 'Mum I'm scared I want to go home.'
21 hours ago · That bleak Valentine’s Day, the twenty-five-year-old Teddy lost his forty-eight-year-old mother to typhus—followed hours later by the death of his wife, Alice, to Bright’s disease at just twenty-two years old. Two days prior, she had given birth to their first and last daughter, herself christened Alice.
