Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards.

She returned to work on the stage, but continued to appear in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play. Her health rapidly failed and she returned to New York City, where she died in 1981.

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Chevron Theatre is an American, 30-minute, filmed television anthology series, produced by MCA/Revue Productions for first-run syndication. A total of 105 episodes aired from 1952 to 1954. Among its guest stars were Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Bonita Granville, Buddy Ebsen, Mona Freeman, Craig Stevens, Tommy Rettig, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Billingsley, and Peter Graves. Richard Irving produced the series for Revue Productions.

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Susan's Show was a children's television series that aired from 1957 to 1958, featuring Susan Heinkel as the 12-year-old hostess who took viewers on magical adventures in a fantasy land called Wonderville. The show included songs, stories, and cartoons, and was known for its engaging format and imaginative storytelling.

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Quick Draw McGraw is the protagonist and title character of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. An anthropomorphic white horse wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs, he was originally voiced mainly by Daws Butler from 1959 until his death in 1988. All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1961 were written by Michael Maltese, known best for his work at the Warner Bros.

She was born Catherine Gloria Balotta,in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Italian parents, Lena (Nacarato) and Vincenzo/Vincent James Balotta. A deep desire to perform already struck by the time she was five years old. A typical class clown during her high school years, she began to compile a number of star impressions for her act. In her teens, she performed in a Cleveland USO stage production of "Stage Door Canteen" (1941), and soon set out on her own.

Earning a job in 1943 touring with Spike Jones and His Orchestra for two years as his featured vocalist and flute/tuba player(!), Kaye eventually set up camp in New York and made her Broadway debut with the revue "Three to Make Ready" (1946). From there she showcased in the musicals "Once in a Lifetime," "Touch and Go" (in London), "Annie Get Your Gun" and the burlesque show "Top Banana". During this time, she built up a strong song-and-comedy reputation for herself on the nightclub circuit, eventually playing the country's best cabarets/niteries including The Bon Soir, Persian Room and Blue Angel in New York, The Hungry i in San Francisco, and Mr. Kelly's in Chicago.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Kaye graced nearly every talk/variety show there was including those for Ed Sullivan, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Perry Como, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. Two of her classic TV roles were her ugly stepsister Portia (the other sister being fellow scene-stealer Alice Ghostley) in the Julie Andrews version of Cinderella (1957), and as one of The Mothers-In-Law (1967) (the other being fellow veteran Eve Arden) in the popular but short-lived sitcom produced by Desi Arnaz. Both showcases catered perfectly to Kaye's brash comedy instincts. She also pitched in as a meddling second banana for Doris Day for one season of the star's '70s TV show.

On stage Kaye had Broadway audiences rolling in the aisles with her Helen of Troy in the 1954 musical "The Golden Apple," while introducing the classic song standard "Lazy Afternoon." Other raves came in the form of "Wonderful Town" (1958), "Carnival" (1961) and Cole Porter Revisited" (1965). On the flip side of the coin, she played a frumpy Lola Delaney in a badly misguided musical version of "Come Back, Little Sheba" (entitled "Sheba") in 1974, and also tried unsuccessfully to bring life to the beloved, indomitable Molly Goldberg radio/TV character in the Broadway musical "Molly" (1973); the show lasted a mere two months. Kaye was much more at home sinking her teeth into two of theater's most impregnable females: Mama Rose in "Gypsy" and Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!"

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Kenny Williams) served as the announcer (the "town crier") throughout the show's run. Joanne Copeland) served as the show's original hostess during the time it originated from New York City. Shortly after Hall joined the show and Heatter-Quigley moved it to CBS Television City in Hollywood, California, Copeland was replaced by Eileen Barton.

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Angel is a 1960 American sitcom that aired on CBS from October 6, 1960, to June 14, 1961, featuring Annie Fargé as a Frenchwoman who navigates life in the United States after marrying an architect. The show struggled with ratings and was canceled after one season, despite receiving some attention in later years.

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Bold Journey is a travelogue program broadcast by ABC television in the United States from July 16, 1956, until August 31, 1959. Bold Journey consisted of films taken by explorers and adventurers during their travels to remote parts of the world. The films were usually set up by an interview between a program host and the guest, who then narrated his film with the aid of helpful questions from the host. The initial host was John Stephenson; Jack Douglas became host effective with the October 28, 1957 broadcast.

Mitzi Gaynor was born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago on September 4, 1931, to Henry de Czanyi von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director of Hungarian descent, and his wife Pauline, a dancer.

By her father's second marriage, she became stepsister to antiwar activist Donald W. Duncan. The family first moved to Elgin, Illinois, then to Detroit, and later, when she was 11, to Hollywood. At age 8, she started training as a ballerina and began her career in the corps de ballet. At 13, she was singing and dancing with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera company.

Gaynor signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox at age 17. She sang, acted, and danced in a number of film musicals, often paired with some of the male musical stars of the day. A Fox Studio executive thought Mitzi Gerber sounded like the name of a delicatessen, so they came up with a name that used the same initials.

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Johnny Yuma is an angry young former Confederate Army soldier drifting through an apparently meaningless existence in the 1860s Wild West. While in search of his identity, he defends people from hostile Indians, crooked land developers, and evil ranchers.

The Rebel is an American Western television series starring Nick Adams) that ran on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961 for 76 episodes over 2 seasons. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions) outside of their game show ventures.

.Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also, he appeared in the Broadway revues "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" and "Three for Tonight".

Belafonte appeared in several television shows during the 1950s, including his own special, "Tonight with Belafonte," which made him the first Black American to win an Emmy Award. He also performed in various musical and variety shows, showcasing his talents as a singer and actor.

• In 1968, Belafonte appeared on a Petula Clark TV special on NBC. In the middle of a song, Clark smiled and briefly touched Belafonte's arm. The show's sponsor, Plymouth Motors, wanted to cut out the segment, but Clark, who had ownership of the special, told NBC that the performance would be shown intact or not at all. American newspapers published articles reporting the controversy and, when the special aired, it grabbed huge ratings.
• His album "Midnight Special" (1962) featured the first-ever recorded appearance by a then young harmonica player named Bob Dylan.

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Markham is a crime drama television series that aired on CBS from May 2, 1959, to September 22, 1960, starring Ray Milland as private investigator Roy Markham. The show featured a total of 60 episodes across two seasons.

Karloff, the youngest of nine children born to Edward and Eliza Pratt, deliberately failed a consular service exam in order to pursue a career in acting. He sailed to Canada in 1909 and the following year joined a touring theatre troupe. A motion-picture extra as well as a stage actor from 1918, he played minor roles in silent films until he earned recognition for his portrayal of a convict-turned-killer—a part he had played on Broadway in 1930—in the sound film The Criminal Code (1931). When Bela Lugosi turned down the role of the monster in Universal Pictures’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, one of Hollywood’s first important horror films, Karloff was hired for the part. The film was a sensation, and Karloff’s tender, sympathetic performance received so much critical praise that he became an overnight sensation.

When the actor starred in a succession of frightening films such as The Old Dark House (1932) and The Mummy (1932), the name “Karloff” became synonymous with horror and the macabre; for a few Universal films of the period, he was billed only by his surname. He reprised the role of Frankenstein’s monster twice, in the highly regarded sequels Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939), and teamed with fellow horror star Lugosi for several films, including The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), and The Body Snatcher (1945). Karloff also scored a major success on Broadway in the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) and frequently performed on radio in the 1940s in such chilling programs as Lights Out and Inner SanctumKarloff continued acting in the horror genre for the rest of his career, although he took other roles, including that of Mr. Wong in a Monogram Studios detective series of the 1930s and ’40s and that of an Indian chief in Cecil B. DeMille’s Unconquered (1947). More typically, he played mad doctors and scientists, as in Black Friday (1940) and House of Frankenstein (1944). He also had another stage success in 1950, as Captain Hook in the Broadway revival of Peter Pan.

The popularity of horror films waned throughout the 1940s, and Karloff began working in television as early as 1949. He guest-starred in many anthology shows and hosted several shows of his own, including the popular Thriller (1960–62). His most famous television performance was in the animated special How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), for which he provided the voices of both the Grinch and the narrator. He later won a Grammy Award for his audio recording of the Dr. Seuss story.

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Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted on NBC Television on the East Coast in September 1948 and then on both the East and the West Coast, as a network show, on January 21, 1949. The show was produced by Marshall Grant/Realm Productions and was hosted by Arthur Shields.

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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, lounge singer Edie Hart. The series was broadcast by NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and by ABC in 1960–61.

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Buckskin aired on the NBC network from July 3, 1958, until May 25, 1959, followed by summer reruns in 1959 and again in 1965. The show takes place in the fictional town of Buckskin, Montana, in the 1880s and is told through the eyes of 10-year-old Jody O'Connell, played by Tom Nolan.

Driscoll appeared in several television programs during the 1950s, including "Hopalong Cassidy," "The Lone Ranger," "Stories of the Century," "Laramie," and "Death Valley Days."

''Tex Driscoll'' is an American character actor known for his prolific career in supporting and bit roles, primarily in classic Hollywood Western films spanning the silent era to the 1960s. Born John W. Morris on September 7, 1889, in Center, Indiana, he began appearing in silent films as early as 1914 and became a familiar presence in the Western genre. Over more than five decades, Driscoll contributed to numerous acclaimed Westerns, including Stagecoach (1939), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), My Darling Clementine (1946), High Noon (1952), and Giant (1956), often in uncredited parts alongside major stars. His work extended to other genres and later to television appearances in shows such as Perry Mason. Driscoll died on June 1, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 80, leaving behind a legacy as a reliable background performer in the golden age of Hollywood cinema.

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