Ken Murray
출생 : 1903-07-14, New York City, New York, USA
사망 : 1988-10-12
약력
Ken Murray (born Kenneth Abner Doncourt, July 14, 1903 – October 12, 1988) was an American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.
After finding success on the vaudeville stage, Murray moved to Hollywood and made his film debut in the 1929 romantic drama Half Marriage, followed by a role in Leathernecking in 1930. Murray was the host of a weekly radio variety show (The Ken Murray Show) on NBC 1932-33 and on CBS 1936–37. He later was the original host (1945-57) of Queen for a Day, on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio show, which was simulcast on KTSL (now KCBS-TV), Channel 2 in Los Angeles.
During World War II, Murray was one of the many celebrities to volunteer at the Hollywood Canteen. In 1947, he produced Bill and Coo, a feature film using trained birds and other animals as actors. Bill and Coo won a special Academy Award for "novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion picture" and "artistry and patience" .
He was also the host of The Ken Murray Show, a weekly music and comedy show on CBS Television that ran from 1950 to 1953. The show was the first to win a Freedom Foundation Award. Murray also guest starred on several television series, including The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Bing Crosby Show.
Murray produced and co-starred as "Smiling Billy Murray" in a 1953 film, The Marshal's Daughter, a western that featured his protege Laurie Anders in the title role, her sole film performance. In 1962, Murray portrayed the top hat wearing, cigar chewing, drunken Doc Willoughby in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring John Wayne and James Stewart, arguably his most memorable screen role. Paired off for most of the picture with Edmond O'Brien as an alcoholic newspaper editor, he drunkenly rolls over the gunshot corpse of villain Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) with his boot, looks around off-handedly, and says "Dead" to the surrounding crowd of euphoric Mexicans.
In 1964, Murray played Whipsaw, the operator of a stagecoach depot in the episode "Little Cayuse" of the television series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. He and his partner take in a Cayuse orphan (Larry Domasin), who demonstrates his loyalty to the men during an Indian attack. In 1965, Murray played a THRUSH financier and owner of a caribbean casino in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. In 1966, Murray was cast as Melody Murphy in the Walt Disney film Follow Me, Boys! starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles and Kurt Russell.
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
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뚱뚱한 사람을 만나면 뚱뚱해지고 중국인 옆에 가면 중국말을 하는 인간 카멜레온 젤리그에 관한 의사 다큐멘터리. 우디 앨런의 어떤 영화에서든 주인공은 항상 삶에 대한 불안감과 두려움으로 가득차 있는 것을 볼 수 있다. 그 극단적 캐릭터가 바로 이 영화의 주인공 레오나르 젤리그이다. 미디어를 통해서는 많은 사람들의 바램 - 변신이라는 - 을 실현시켜 주는 영웅이 되지만 실제로는 자신의 정체성을 부인하고 딴 사람이 되어야 안심이 되고 사랑 받을 수 있다고 생각하는 소심한 실패자인 것이다. 이 기발하면서도 내면적 깊이가 있는 컨셉을 가지고 우디 앨런은 테크놀로지 실험에 도전한다. 소울 벨로우나 수잔 손탁이 젤리그에 대한 기억을 진지하게 회상하거나, 젤리그 주변사람들에 대한 인터뷰가 간간히 들어가는가 하면, 방대한 뉴스 릴과 우디 앨런을 편집으로 합성하여 재즈 시대에서 파시즘 초기 시대까지의 유명인들과 함께 대화하는 것처럼 만들어 놓고서 다큐멘타리를 패러디한다. 재즈 음악과 어울려 화면은 재치와 속도감을 가지고 지나가지만 그 당시의 혼란과 불안감에 대한 고찰이 숨어있다. 그러나 결국 젤리그는 유도라 플레처와의 사랑에 안주해 버린다. 미국의 중산층의 가치를 받아들이면서 유순하고 평범한 미국인으로 전락해버린 것이다.
Souvenir Salesman
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Grover
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Melody Murphy
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
Editor
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
Himself
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
Host
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Producer
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Mr. Hurley
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Doc Willoughby
젊은 변호사 랜스는 죽마고우였던 톰의 장례식을 위해 텍사스의 작은 마을인 신본으로 향하고, 가는 도중 회상에 잠긴다. 예전의 신본은 리버티 밸런스라는 무법자 때문에 온 동네가 공포 그 자체였다. 신본에 도착한 랜스는 법으로 리버티를 응징하려고 하지만 무법자에게 법이 통할리 만무하다. 이 때 신본에서 리버티를 대적할 유일한 사람인 톰은 리버티에게 맞설 수 있는 방법은 오직 '총'뿐이라고 말한다. 랜스와 톰은 표면적으로 '법'과 '총'이라는 견해 차이를 보이는데 그 내면에는 할리라는 여인을 차지하고자 하는 마음이 있다. 그러는 사이 리버티의 만행은 갈수록 심해지고 최후의 시간이 다가온다.
'Smiling Billy' Murray
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."
Ken Murray
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Producer
The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.
Ken Murray
The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Malcolm Hammond
Swing and jitterbug.
Jerry Traynor
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
Barney Nelson
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Nap Sisler
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Don King
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Mac
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Jim McGuire
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Peter Sturgis
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Spencer B. Dazy
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Frank
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Charles Turner
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
