Teddy Rooney

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Veuve et mère de deux enfants, Jane Osgood débute dans le commerce du homard pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Une de ses premières ventes par correspondance est refusée, la compagnie de chemin de fer chargée de son transport ayant négligemment trop tardé à livrer. Avec l’aide de son ami avocat George Denham, elle attaque la compagnie de chemin de fer que dirige un homme misogyne et sans aucun scrupule, le détestable Harry Foster Malone.

Jim Flood sort d'un saloon une arme à la main : il vient de tuer ses partenaires de poker, qu'il soupçonnait de tricher, et s'enfuit après avoir mis le feu à l'établissement. Le lendemain, les habitants rendent responsables Seven Jones, nouvellement engagé dans les Texas Rangers, de ne pas avoir été présent lorsqu'ils avaient besoin d'être protégés. Le lieutenant Herly, commandant régional des Texas Rangers, lui confie alors sa première mission : appréhender Jim Flood avec l'aide du Ranger le plus expérimenté, le sergent Hennesseay...

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, the hostage takers become the hostages as they pay through the nose becoming the butts of the kid's stunts.

An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II. McHale was made the Skipper of the Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73 stationed at the U.S. Naval Installation on the island of Taratupa in the Southwest Pacific. The 73 'Family' included, among others, a con man and amateur Magician, a womanizing hunk, a dedicated Family man, a guitar-playing, moonshine-making Tennessee good ol' boy, and even a deserter from the Japanese Navy, who was an excellent cook.

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.

Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".