Charlotte Rae
Nacimiento : 1926-04-22, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Muerte : 2018-08-05
Historia
Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was born on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein), who was a childhood friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a retail tire business owner. She is one of three sisters, along with Miriam and the late Beverly (December 21, 1921 – June 2, 1998).
She graduated from Shorewood High School in 1944. For the first ten years or so of her life, Rae's family lived in Milwaukee, then moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin. She did radio work and was with the Wauwatosa Children's Theatre. At 16, she was an apprentice with the Port Players, a professional theater company that came for the summer to Milwaukee, with several established actors such as Morton DaCosta, who would eventually direct The Music Man on Broadway.
Rae attended Northwestern University, although she did not complete her studies, where she met Cloris Leachman, who many years later succeeded Rae on The Facts of Life for the show's last two seasons. At Northwestern she met several unknown stars and producers, including Agnes Nixon, Charlton Heston, Paul Lynde, Gerald Freedman, Claude Akins and songwriter Sheldon Harnick. When a radio personality told her that her last name wouldn't do, she dropped it, to her father's chagrin. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she performed in the theater and nightclubs. During her early years in New York, she worked at the Village Vanguard (alongside up-and-coming talents such as singer Richard Dyer-Bennet) and at the posh Blue Angel, home to budding talents Barbra Streisand, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974
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Oma
Ricki es una guitarrista que lo abandonó todo para alcanzar su sueño de convertirse en una estrella de rock. Su ex marido Pete le pide que viaje hasta Chicago para visitar a Julie, la hija de ambos, pues se está divorciando y necesita apoyo.
Self
Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her life has been successful.
Edna
Dori and Norman, two stunning and sophisticated serial daters, are destined to endure a terrifying journey through perfect couple-hood: Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, Christmas and New Year. Except with psychopath Dori, it all needs to take place over one weekend deep in the isolated countryside far from help. "Love Sick Love" is a complex and suspenseful journey into the darker side of love.
Vesta
Una mirada a la inspiración detrás de la pintura de Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage, y cómo el artista se sintió motivado para comenzar su carrera después de descubrir que su madre temía perder su hogar familiar.
Mrs. Greenhouse
Zohan, un peculiar y muy competente agente israelí de los servicios secretos del Mossad, finge su muerte para poder trasladarse de Israel a Nueva York y cumplir allí el sueño de su vida: convertirse en peluquero y estilista. Aunque Zohan se ha propuesto olvidar su peligrosa vida como agente de la lucha antiterrorista, pronto se da cuenta de que no es tan sencillo.
Mrs. Edna Garrett
After receiving two separate marriage proposals, Natalie asks the gang to reunite in Peekskill, NY.
Stella
Susan, una profesora de natación, tiene entre sus alumnas a la psicóloga Laurel. Pronto se hacen grandes amigas y se confían sus problemas. Mientras que Susan está a punto de ser abandonada por su marido, Laurel acaba de encontrar pareja. Lo malo es que un día descubren que el marido de Susan es el novio de Laurel.
Fortune Teller
Un grupo de jóvenes en plena época de drogas, en la que tomar ácido es la moda, comienza a experimentar. Pronto acabarán siendo esclavos de su propia locura, llegando a "estar presentes en abducciones alienígenas", olas de suicidios colectivos, actos de bisexualidad...
Lola Miller
Terry "Hulk" Hogan stars as R. J. "Hurricane" Spencer who is an ex-Navy S. E. A. L. and confirmed bachelor struggling to make ends meet. In order to save his superboat THUNDER (and ultimately, his business) Spencer is forced into a marriage of convenience with the snobby Megan Whitaker. When Megan gets kidnapped it's up to Spencer and his partner Bru to save the day or risk losing everything.
Aunt Figg (voice)
La famosa pareja conoce a Robyn Starling quien tras escaparse de su casa necesita la ayuda de Tom y Jerry para encontrar a su desaparecido padre. A pesar de sus esfuerzos heróicos, Tom y Jerry son capturados por la malvada tía de Robyn, Tía Gordis, y su abogado Lambis y encarcelados en una cárcel de animales por el perverso doctor Caradulce Cachetín. Tom y Jerry planean una fuga genial y liberan a sus nuevos amigos Puggsy y Frankie la Pulga. (FILMAFFINITY)
Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again...
Miss Cackle
Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard comes to the Academy for a Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!!
Noah's Wife / Additional Voices (voice)
The story of the Prophet Noah. Violence and corruption fill the earth. To punish this wickedness, God vows to send a cleansing flood. Only one man - Noah - and his family will be spared because they alone honor God's law. God commands him to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal. Once building is under way, Noah and his sons face scorn and sabotage from their sinful neighbors - but they persevere. Noah's faith is vindicated when the heavens erupt with a rainy torrent for 40 days. But God's test of Noah's courage and commitment is just beginning.
Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Mary Tom Chism
The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
Edna Garrett
Mrs. Garrett and the girls travel to Paris, France. Mrs. Garrett takes a cooking class taught by a famous chef as the girls take classes at the sister school of Eastland.
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Mae Slocombe
To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store.
Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
Lady in Pink
Claude Hooper Bukowsky es un campesino que llega a Nueva York para hacer la instrucción militar antes de ir a luchar en Vietnam. En la ciudad descubre un mundo nuevo: miles de jóvenes se oponen a la guerra y defienden el amor libre. Pronto será admitido en un grupo hippie. Adaptación del famoso musical de Broadway de 1968.
Bessie
The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Cousin Claire
Cuando el profesor Lionel Carpenter tiene, por fin, su primera experiencia sexual, algo extraño e inesperado ocurre: se queda embarazado. Ahora todo el mundo quiere sacar provecho de la situación, incluso el mismísimo presidente.
An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Mrs. Holt
An ageing motocross champ agrees to help design and endorse a new motorcycle.
Mrs. Soames
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Helen
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.
Ma Murch
La exhibición de un diamante de incalculable valor en el Museo de Brooklyn despierta la codicia de John Archibald Dortmunder, un ladrón que acaba de salir de la cárcel. Con la ayuda de su cuñado y de Allan, un viejo colega, da el golpe, pero con tan mala suerte que Allan es atrapado y se traga la joya.
Mrs. Ruth Mellish
Cuando Fielding Mellish, un torpe y tímido probador de productos es abandonado por su novia, la sensual y atractiva Nancy, decide cogerse unas vacaciones y se dirige a la pequeña república de San Marcos. Pero lo único que consigue es verse envuelto en un sinfín de divertidísimos líos burocráticos en el pequeño país que tienen como telón de fondo la guerrilla subversiva. Todo se complica aún más cuando los rebeldes guerrilleros toman el poder y su líder se vuelve completamente loco. Sus propios compañeros toman una drástica decisión: cambiar al líder por Mellish, creyendo que él podrá salvar el país. Pero la suerte nunca parece estar del lado de Mellish y es secuestrado por el F.B.I. que le somete a juicio y le acusa de subversivo.
Bella Star
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Myrtle Ruth
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!
Rosa Whale
Pinocchio is a musical version of the story that aired in the United States on NBC, with pop star Peter Noone playing the puppet.
Terentievna
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
While all the other dragons are puffing away, one dragon refuses to smoke. They all think he's totally square and a number of them challenge him to fights, races, and arm-wrestling contests. As he defeats them all with his clean lungs and nicotine-free body, they begin to think that maybe he's the cool one after all.
The Angel Rochele
This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.