Where Have You Gone, Paddy Chayefsky, Joe Mantell, Art Gilmore, and Supporting Players?

Another great playwright, Paddy Chayefsky, supporting players like actors Joe Mantell and Art Gilmore, and many of the Dodgers and Giants on October 3, 1951 are featured.

 

In 1951, Chayefsky turned 28 years old, and Mantell was 36 years old.  By 1955, Mantell and Chayefsky were both Oscar nominees for the film Marty. Mantell was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Chayefsky won the Oscar for Best Screenplay.

 

On August 14, 1951, the film A Place in the Sun premiered in Los Angeles. It’s one of the iconic films of the 1950s directed by George Stevens and starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In an uncredited role, Art Gilmore’s voice is heard as a radio announcer. 

 

Gilmore was the namesake of the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters. Gilmore was one of the founders of the organization. 

 

We look at Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the Society of American Magicians (SAM) and the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM), Ezzard Charles, Bill Veeck, and Eddie Gaedel.