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1952 Ad, Old Gold Cigarettes, with TV Announcer & Actor Dennis James 
Image by classic_film Vintage 1950s magazine advertisement, Old Gold Cigarettes, with legendary TV host, actor, and announcer Dennis James (August 24, 1917â€"June 3, 1997), 1952 Brief Dennis James bio from Wikipedia: American television personality, actor, and announcer. He is credited as the host of television's first network game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry, in 1946. James was the first person to host a telethon and the first to appear in a television commercial. [...] James often addressed the TV audience as "Mother", a practice he had begun when discussing the finer points of wrestling during his sports broadcasts. He feared the men in the audience would be insulted by the implication that they didn't already know the rules (even if they didn't), but would accept that James was merely explaining things for the benefit of women viewers. During the 1953â€"54 season, James was the announcer of the quiz program Judge for Yourself, which aired on NBC, with Fred Allen as the emcee. James gained his greatest fame as the host of numerous game shows. Prior to 1956, he and Bert Parks hosted the ABC musical game show Stop the Music. In 1956, James emceed the short-lived High Finance on CBS in which contestants answer current events questions to build up a jackpot for prizes. James later hosted the NBC daytime revival of Name That Tune (1974â€"75) and his last game show, the weekly syndicated nighttime version of The (New) Price is Right (1972â€"77). James and producer Mark Goodson co-hosted a promotional film, selling stations on the 1972 revival of Price, which was originally hosted by James' fellow TV pioneer Bill Cullen. [...] Outside of sports and game shows, James was also a popular commercial spokesman for products including Old Gold cigarettes, Kellogg's cereals and, through his own production company, many local and regional companies and businesses. For nearly 30 years, James was the spokesman for Physicians Mutual Insurance Company until his death in 1997. His expression "Okay? Okay!" became a trademark in many of James' commercials. He returned to his wrestling roots in the 1978 Henry Winkler film The One and Only as the announcer for Winkler's title match, and was also the wrestling commentator in Rocky III for Rocky Balboa's match against Thunderlips (played by Hulk Hogan). His final acting appearance was in The Method in 1997. ************************* Published in Quick news weekly magazine, May 5, 1952, Vol. 6, No. 19 Fair use/no known copyright. If you use this photo, please provide attribution credit; not for commercial use (see Creative Commons license).
1966 Playboy Interview with Director Mike Nichols 
Image by classic_film First page of the 1960s Playboy interview conducted with comedian, writer, and director Mike Nichols (November 6, 1931 â€" November 19, 2014). Interview tagline: "A candid conversation with the brilliant comedian turned director of four hit Broadway plays and the Burtons' much-publicized new film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" This interview is a remarkable, nostalgic slice of the past. It took place before Nichols directed his groundbreaking "The Graduate" (1967), his Oscar-nominated "Silkwood" (1983), and his box-office hit "The Birdcage" (1996), which starred the late Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman. It would be another two decades before Nichols would meet and marry former "ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer. He directed his last film, "Charlie Wilson's War," in 2007. Poignant caption under the first photo of Nichols reads, "I don't care about being forgotten. I fear getting to the end of my life and feeling that I haven't tasted enough and touched on other people enough and had a good enough time." Until his death, Nichols quelled his "end of life" fear by living his life richly and fully, reaching out and touching on other people. May he rest in peace. Published in Playboy magazine, June 1966 - Vol. 13 No. 6 Fair use/no known copyright. If you use this photo, please provide attribution credit; not for commercial use (see Creative Commons license). **************** Opening portion of New York Times' obituary following Nichols' death on November 19, 2014, Mike Nichols, Acclaimed Director of ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 83: Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood, died on Wednesday. He was 83. His death was announced in a statement by the president of ABC News, James Goldston. A spokeswoman for ABC said the cause was cardiac arrest. Dryly urbane, Mr. Nichols had a gift for communicating with actors and a keen comic timing, which he honed early in his career as half of the popular sketch-comedy team Nichols and May. In works such as “The Graduate,†“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?†and “Carnal Knowledge†on screen and in a wide variety of comedies and dramas on stage, he accomplished what Orson Welles and Elia Kazan, but few if any other directors have: He achieved popular and artistic success in both film and theater. He was among the most decorated people in the history of show business, one of only a handful to have won an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy. His career encompassed an entire era of screen and stage entertainment. On Broadway, where he won an astonishing nine Tonys (including two as a producer), he once had four shows running simultaneously. He directed Neil Simon’s early comedies “Barefoot in the Park†and “The Odd Couple†in the 1960s, the zany Monty Python musical, “Spamalot,†four decades later, and nearly another decade after that, an acclaimed revival of Arthur Miller’s bruising masterpiece, “Death of a Salesman.†In June 2012 at age 80, he accepted the Tony for directing “Salesman.†When his name was announced at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the neighborhood where he grew up, he kissed his wife, the broadcaster Diane Sawyer, stepped to the stage and recalled that he once won a pie-eating contest in that very theater. “It was nice but this is nicer,†he said. “You see before you a happy man.â€
