"and Megan Draper's trip to the Howard Johnson's Restaurant and Motor Lodge in Plattsburgh, New York. However, exteriors were actually shot in Baldwin Park, California. In response, Howard Johnson's launched a promotion referencing the appearance, to include a letter addressed to the character of Don Draper in the style of letterhead used in that era. In the Academy Award Best Picture of 1955, ""Marty"", Ernest Borgnine (winner of the Best Actor Oscar in the film) tries to make a date with a girl and recalls their last meeting where they had burgers and a milkshake was at Howard Johnson's. In"
"Ernest Borgnine Ernest Borgnine (; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but calm voice, and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he had also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows. Borgnine's film career began in 1951, and included supporting roles in ""China Corsair"" (1951), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), ""Vera Cruz"" (1954), ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955) and ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). He also played the unconventional"
"the television play of the same name. He gained an Academy Award for Best Actor over Frank Sinatra, James Dean (who had died by the time of the ceremony), and former Best Actor winners Spencer Tracy and James Cagney. Borgnine's film career flourished for the next three decades, including roles in ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" (1965), ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967), ""Ice Station Zebra"" (1968), ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972), ""Emperor of the North"" (1973), ""Convoy"" (1978), ""The Black Hole"" (1979), and ""Escape from New York"" (1981). One of his most famous roles was that of Dutch, a member of ""The"
"Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. In 1996, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 1997, Borgnine was the commencement speaker at Lakeland College, and received an honorary doctorate in humane letters in recognition of his distinguished acting career. In 1998, the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars dedicated a Golden Palm Star to him. In 2006 the comune of Ottiglio, Italy, his father's birthplace, gave him the honorary citizenship. """" is dedicated to Borgnine. Borgnine won the 1955 Academy Award"
"he was the executive producer of ""Hoover"", in which he was the only credited actor. In 2007, Borgnine starred in the Hallmark original film ""A Grandpa for Christmas"". He played a man who, after his estranged daughter ends up in the hospital because of a car accident, discovers that he has a granddaughter he never knew about. She is taken into his care, and they soon become great friends. Borgnine received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television for his performance. At 90, he was the oldest Golden Globe nominee ever."
"mind. In 2002, Poitier received the 2001 Honorary Academy Award for his overall contribution to American cinema. With the death of Ernest Borgnine, in 2012, he became the oldest living man to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. On March 2, 2014, Poitier appeared with Angelina Jolie at the 86th Academy Awards, to present the Best Director Award. He was given a standing ovation. Jolie thanked him for all his Hollywood contributions, stating ""we are in your debt"". Poitier gave a brief acceptance speech, telling his peers to ""keep up the wonderful work"" to warm applause. Poitier directed"
"Guntner, the style of the film owes much to German Expressionism and to ""film noir"": the cavernous sets featuring narrow winding stairwells correspond to the labyrinths of Hamlet's psyche. The 1948 ""Hamlet"" was the only film in which the leading actor had directed himself to an Oscar-winning performance, until 1998, when Roberto Benigni directed himself to an Oscar in ""Life Is Beautiful"". Olivier is also the only actor to win an Oscar for a Shakespearean role. ""Hamlet"" was the only film to have won both the Golden Lion and the Academy Award for Best Picture until ""The Shape of Water"""
"""' ""The Word from Denmark"" 13th Golden Globe Awards The 13th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1955 films, were held on February 23, 1956. ""' ""East of Eden directed by Elia Kazan"" ""' ""Guys and Dolls directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz"" ""' ""Ernest Borgnine - Marty"" ""' ""Tom Ewell - The Seven Year Itch"" ""' ""Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo"" ""' ""Marisa Pavan - The Rose Tattoo"" ""' ""Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls"" ""' Arthur Kennedy - ""Trial"" ""' Joshua Logan - ""Picnic"" ""' ""Marlon Brando"" ""' ""Grace Kelly"" ""' ""James Dean"" Award given"
"international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in ""Champion"" (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Other early films include ""Young Man with a Horn"" (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day; ""Ace in the Hole"" opposite Jan Sterling (1951); and ""Detective Story"" (1951). He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in ""Lust for Life"" (1956). In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which"
"Runaways"", 1953), ""Omnibus"" (""The Horn Blows at Midnight"", 1953); ""Four Star Theatre"" (""Moorings"", 1953; ""A Study in Panic"", 1954), ""Fireside Theatre"" (""Afraid to Live"", 1954; ""Our Son"", 1954; ""Mr Onion"" 1955), ""Lux Video Theatre"" (""The Hunted"", 1955), ""The Christophers"" (""The World Starts with Jimmy"", 1955), ""General Electric Theatre"" (""The Clown"" with Henry Fonda, 1955) and ""Appointment with Adventure"" (""Mutiny"", 1956). Film roles included ""The Lone Gun"" (1954), a Western with George Montgomery; ""Pushover"" (1954), a thriller with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak; and ""Private Hell 36"" (1954) from director Don Siegel. Malone was reunited with Sinatra in ""Young at Heart"""
"on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s ""Suspicion"" and Olivia de Havilland for ""Hold Back the Dawn"". Fontaine’s victory was the only time a performer won for a role in a Hitchcock film. This was also the first year in which documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary was awarded to ""Churchill's Island"". ""The Little Foxes"" established a new high of nine nominations without winning a single Oscar. Its mark was matched by ""Peyton Place"" in 1957, and exceeded by ""The Turning Point"" and ""The Color Purple"", both of which received 11"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for ""perpetuating snobbery"". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in ""Erin Brockovich"", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with"
"an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and he reprised the role in two more movies, ""Mr. Belvedere Goes to College"" (1949) and ""Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell"" (1951). As early as the 1950s, attempts were made to adapt the character to television. Three pilots for a proposed series based on the Belvedere character were made during the 1950s and 1960s; a 1956 attempt starring Reginald Gardiner, a 1959 effort with Hans Conried, and a 1965 version starring Victor Buono in the title role. All efforts, however, were unsuccessful until 1985, when ABC picked up ""Mr. Belvedere"" to series to"
"a String"" (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine. The title of another, ""The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing"", about Evelyn Nesbit, was used in the 1955 movie. He was the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe award (now called the Edgar Award) in 1957 with ""Night Fell on Georgia"" (written with his wife Louise Samuels). Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. He lived mostly in New York City and its suburbs (Hastings-on-Hudson, Nyack, New York and Grand View NY) and retired in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Samuels's son"
"(1983), ""Miller's Crossing"" (1990), ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000), ""Big Fish"" (2003), ""The Bourne Ultimatum"" (2007), ""Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"" (2007), ""The Bourne Legacy"" (2012), and the James Bond film ""Skyfall"" (2012). A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); he was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Finney was born in the Charlestown"
"Matter of Time"" (1976). During the course of his career he directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won. Minnelli received an Oscar nomination as Best Director for ""An American in Paris"" (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar for ""Gigi"" (1958). According to Peter Bart in his book ""The Gross"", Minnelli's films having 11 first-place finishes on Variety's opening release box office rankings. He was awarded France's highest civilian honor, Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, only weeks before his"
"get him back to a boxing arena, Eddie finds that Gorski and the spectators all have forgiven him. The Square Jungle The Square Jungle is a 1955 film noir drama sport film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley and Ernest Borgnine. Former heavyweight champion of the world Joe Louis appears as himself. Pat Quaid, an alcoholic San Francisco widower, ends up in jail. His grocery-clerk son, Eddie, needs $25 to bail him out. When he can't borrow it, Eddie enters an amateur fight contest and wins it. Julie Walsh is in love with Eddie, but her"
"In 1947 Burns changed his first name to avoid confusion with comedian George Burns. He made his Broadway debut in the original production of ""Mister Roberts"" alongside Henry Fonda. Burns began appearing on American television in 1953 including appearing in the original 1954 television broadcast of ""Twelve Angry Men"". During his acting career he befriended Ernest Borgnine where he supervised Ernest repainting scenery. Borgnine recalled that during the 1950s Burns was rejected from the lead of a show, eventually finding out it was due to his befriending suspected communists. Burns brought his medals and captains bars to the producers and"
"""All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz"" ""' ""Edmund Gwenn – Mister 880"" ""' ""Josephine Hull – Harvey"" ""' ""Gene Nelson"" ""' ""Broken Arrow (1950 film) directed by Delmer Daves"" ""' ""Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman"" 8th Golden Globe Awards The 8th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1950 films, were held on February 28, 1951, in the Ciro's nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip. ""' ""José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac"" ""' ""Fred Astaire – Three Little Words"" ""' ""Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard"" ""' ""Judy Holliday – Born"
"won the Best Actor Oscar for ""From Here to Eternity"" instead of him. It is said that he felt he was given the award as consolation for not having previously won it for ""Sunset Boulevard"". In addition, Wilder was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and Strauss for Best Supporting Actor. Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy"
"New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama. That year producer James Hill and star Rita Hayworth were married. Two limited-budget productions followed ""Separate Tables"": ""The Rabbit Trap"" and ""Cry Tough"", both released in 1959. ""The Rabbit Trap"" was anticipated as another box office winner, as with ""Marty"", based on a teleplay by JP Miller who adapted his story for the film. British film director Philip Leacock was brought over for the Ernest Borgnine starrer, with Don"
"(1954–63). He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; for ""The Servant"" (1963) and ""Darling"" (1965). His other notable film roles included ""Victim"" (1961), ""Accident"" (1967), ""The Damned"" (1969), ""Death in Venice"" (1971), ""The Night Porter"" (1974), ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977) and ""Despair"" (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. Bogarde was the elder of two sons born to Ulric van den Bogaerde (1892–1972) and Margaret Niven (1898–1980). Ulric was born in Perry Barr, Birmingham, of Flemish ancestry. He was Art"
"Ernest Borgnine on ""McHale's Navy"" (1962–1964), as Joseph ""Happy"" Haines, and on ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" (1970–1977) as Murray Slaughter. He is best known for his starring role on ABC's ""The Love Boat"" (1977–1986), in which he was cast as ship's Captain Merrill Stubing. MacLeod was born in Mount Kisco, New York, the elder of two children. His mother, Margaret (née Shea) See (1906–2004), a middle school dropout, worked for ""Reader's Digest"". His father, George See (1906–1945), an electrician, was part Chippewa (Ojibwa). He grew up in Pleasantville, New York, and studied acting at Ithaca College, from which he"
"television. For portraying Augustus in the historical drama ""Cleopatra"" (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Other titles include ""The Longest Day"" (1962), ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965), ""That Darn Cat!"" (1965), ""Inside Daisy Clover"" (1965), ""Bedknobs and Broomsticks"" (1971), ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (1972), ""Funny Lady"" (1975), ""The Black Hole"" (1979), ""Class of 1984"" (1982), ""Fright Night"" (1985), ""Overboard"" (1987), ""Fright Night Part 2"" (1988), ""Shakma"" (1990), and ""A Bug's Life"" (1998). He also served in various positions on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Selection Committee for"
"Adam 1966: ""The Blue Max"" – Wilfred Shingleton 1967: no award given 1967: ""A Man for All Seasons"" – John Box Best Production Design (and Art Direction) 1968: """" – Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters 1970: ""Waterloo"" – Mario Garbuglia 1971: ""Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)"" – Ferdinando Scarfiotti 1972: ""Cabaret"" – Rolf Zehetbauer 1973: ""The Hireling"" – Natasha Kroll 1974: ""The Great Gatsby"" – John Box 1975: ""Rollerball"" – John Box 1976: ""Bugsy Malone"" – Geoffrey Kirkland 1977: ""Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)"" – Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini 1978: ""Close Encounters of the"
"of acting became a ""rejection of glamour"". Her most distinguished work in Hollywood is in ""Wild is the Wind"", according to Wood. Directed by George Cukor, ""the American cinema's greatest director of actresses,"" he was able to draw out the ""individual essence"" of Magnani's ""sensitive and inward performance."" Her other well-known Hollywood films were ""The Rose Tattoo"", which she won the best actress Oscar for in 1955, and ""The Fugitive Kind"". During Benito Mussolini's rule, Magnani was known to make rude jokes about the Italian Fascist Party. She married her first film director, Goffredo Alessandrini, in 1935, two years after"
"four qualify by consensus: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951) and ""The Wrong Man"" (1956). Otto Preminger's success with ""Laura"" (1944) made his name and helped demonstrate noir's adaptability to a high-gloss 20th Century-Fox presentation. Among Hollywood's most celebrated directors of the era, arguably none worked more often in a noir mode than Preminger; his other noirs include ""Fallen Angel"" (1945), ""Whirlpool"" (1949), ""Where the Sidewalk Ends"" (1950) (all for Fox) and ""Angel Face"" (1952). A half-decade after ""Double Indemnity"" and ""The Lost Weekend"", Billy Wilder made ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950) and ""Ace in the"
"1952, when it was replaced by ""My Cousin Rachel"". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by ""The Silver Chalice"", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film ""The Caine Mutiny"" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, ""The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"". Directed by Charles"
"""Z"" in 1969). Moreover, its seven nominations were the most for a foreign language film, to date. Best Actor winner Roberto Benigni was the second person to direct himself to an acting Oscar win. Laurence Olivier first achieved this feat for his performance in 1948's ""Hamlet"". He also became the fourth individual to earn acting, directing, screenwriting nominations for the same film. In addition, Benigni was the third performer to win an Oscar for a non-English speaking role. By virtue of their nominations for portraying Queen Elizabeth I of England, Best Actress nominee Cate Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress winner"
"Mister Roberts (1955 film) Mister Roberts is a 1955 American Warnercolor in CinemaScope comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy and features an all-star cast including Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, James Cagney as Captain Morton, William Powell (in his final film appearance) as Doc, and Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver. Based on the 1946 novel and 1948 Broadway play, the film was nominated for the three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller), with Jack Lemmon winning the award for Best Supporting Actor. In the waning days of World War II, the"
"that year was starring in the smash hit film ""Oklahoma!"", adapted from the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The ""Los Angeles Times"" called it ""an exciting, vigorous attraction."" The Last Command (1955 film) The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor Western film directed by Frank Lloyd starring Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine and J. Carrol Naish. In 1835, Jim Bowie realizes that there were uneasy disputes between the Mexican government and the American immigrants who've settled in Texas. Dozens of American men, including Stephen Austin have been arrested for supposedly igniting rebellions against the"
"man fighting the forces of nature. He went on to receive his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" (1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. His last and most famous film, ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously)"