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Commemorating a 60th Anniversary: Psycho by Robert Bloch
June 16th is the 60th anniversary of the release date of the film Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock’s film is based on a novel by Robert Bloch. It is the story of Norman Bates, a lonely motel caretaker who is seething with … Continue reading
Lost Episode of Golden Age of Television Dramatic Series “Star Tonight” Found and Identified
From 1955-56 on ABC, a live TV series titled Star Tonight offered the chance for young up-and-coming New York actors to star in a show opposite established players. The known stars included: Buster Crabbe, Neva Patterson, Theodore Bikel, and June … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, Archival Film, Digital collections, Edmund C. Rice papers, found in the archive, Motion picture actors and actresses, popular culture, Student projects, Teapot Dome scandal, television history, Uncategorized
Tagged ABC, Annie Hall, Dramatic television anthology, Early American Television, Golden Age of Television, lost TV shows, Mary Boylan, popular culture, Star Tonight, Tom Helmore, Vertigo
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A New Year’s Tale: The Story of Jean Howard and Charles Feldman
As a tribute to the new year, we’re featuring the story of Jean Howard and Charles Feldman, a Hollywood couple who most assuredly would have hosted a rocking New Year’s Eve party. The story of Jean Howard and Charles Feldman … Continue reading
The Old-Time Saloon – Just History, for the Season
It’s the holiday season and you may be tempted to tipple a few beverages of the alcoholic variety. It seems like a good opportunity to provide you with a drinking story. Something you can relate to your friends as you … Continue reading
Posted in Authors and literature, cartoons, Holidays, Journalism, Politics, Prohibition, rare books, Uncategorized
Tagged Holidays, popular culture, Prohibition
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Stan Lee’s Legacy Lives on at the American Heritage Center
Stan Lee’s legacy lives on at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC). Stan Lee – comics industry pioneer, collection donor, and AHC benefactor – died November 12, 2018, at age 95, in his home city of Los Angeles. … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, Artists, Authors and literature, cartoons, Comic book history, commercial art, Current events, exhibits, found in the archive, motion picture history, popular culture, Stan Lee, Uncategorized
Tagged announcements, Comics, commercial art, Entertainment industry, popular culture
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Farewell Superhero Stan Lee
One of the American Heritage Center’s benefactors, and all around favorite person, was Stan Lee. He passed away November 12, 2018 at age 95. This amazing man not only gave the AHC valuable research materials spanning his career, he managed … Continue reading
Attack of the Killer…Shrews?
With it being the Halloween season, it seems appropriate to take note of a gruesome creature of movie land that may have haunted our dreams, or is kitschy enough to have made us roll our eyes in disbelief. You’ve heard … Continue reading
Celebrating 200th anniversary of Frankenstein
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In the novel, Shelley (1797-1851) tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who builds a sapient creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous … Continue reading
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A Friendship Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick and Gerald Fried
Gerald Fried, a Julliard trained composer for television and film and a still active nonagenarian, began performing music in his Bronx neighborhood during the 1940s. There he met Stanley Kubrick, who would go on to become a celebrated film director, … Continue reading
Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper
One of the most recognizable figures of the first thirteen years (1969-1982) of PBS’s Sesame Street was Mr. Hooper the grocer, played by veteran actor Will Lee. He was one of the four original human characters on the show. Before … Continue reading