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nerds-yearbook · 1 month

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Julie Newmar was the first actress to protray Catwoman on the Adam West Batman TV show. She made her debute on March 16, 1966. It is said that she designed and made her own costume. ("The Purr-fect Crime", Batman, TV, Event).

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angelstills · 2 years

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S1, Ep. 7: The Witches Are Out (1964) Bewitched (1964-1972)

#Bewitched #1960s #1964 #TV #Elizabeth Montgomery #Marion Lorne #William Asher #Madge Blake

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mariocki · 1 year

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Between Midnight and Dawn (Prowl Car, 1950)

"Your girlfriend seems kinda worried about something."

"So she's afraid of cops. So what's that prove?"

"I'll tell ya later."

#between midnight and dawn #prowl car #1950 #film noir #american cinema #gordon douglas #eugene ling #leo katcher #gerald drayson adams #mark stevens #edmond o'brien #gale storm #donald buka #gale robbins #anthony ross #roland winters #tito vuolo #madge blake #grazia narciso #philip van zandt #jack del rio #george duning #minor police procedural which purports to tell the story of the men on the street in uniform‚ as opposed to those flash fbi agents or other #special agents. any claims to naturalism pretty soon go out the window as our two patrolmen quickly become embroiled in a major gangwar #that sees them personally on the receiving end of a mob vendetta. slow to get moving‚ and with some awkwardly placed homelife comedy #slash melodrama‚ but this does liven up considerably in the last act (a surprisingly brutal and violent setpiece that sees bloody #justice served). O'Brien looks a little old to be a potential romantic lead in the love triangle that develops in the film‚ but actually he #would have been 34 at time of shooting (!) so i guess it's just literally his face... idk. just one of those guys who looks older than he #was. Mark Stevens (and his chin) are a much more likely love rival for Gale Storm's charms (and as an aside‚ how great a stage name is #Gale Storm? excellent choice Gale‚ real name Josephine Cottle). script delivers a few punchy lines but this is fairly disposable fare tbh

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streamondemand · 1 year

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'Batman' – the big screen spoof on HBO Max

‘Batman’ – the big screen spoof on HBO Max

Holy camp fest, Batman! After the iconic comic book superhero became a sensation in the tongue-in-cheek live action spoof, the campy adventure comedy hit the big screen with the feature-length spin-of Batman (1966). Adam West’s wooden Batman is the cowled vigilante alter-ego of straight arrow millionaire Bruce Wayne and Bruce Ward’s Robin (aka Dick Grayson, Bruce’s young collegiate protégé) his…

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raynbowclown · 2 years

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The Purr-fect Crime

The Purr-fect Crime / Better Luck Next Time – Batman season 1 The Purr-fect Crime – March 15 1966 Catwoman initiates a series of thefts that cause Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman and Robin. But the importance of the crimes go beyond the taking of the objects involved. The episode ends with Batman literally having to choose between the lady and the tiger. And he chooses wrongly! (more…)

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#Adam West #Alan Napier #Batman #Burt Ward #Harry Holcombe #Jock Mahoney #Julie Newmar #Madge Blake #Neil Hamilton #Pat Zurica #Ralph Manza #Stafford Repp

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whatamigonnawatchtoday · 5 months

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It's Always Fair Weather

1955. Satirical Musical

By Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns, Jay C. Flippen, Steve Mitchell, Hal March, Paul Maxey, Peter Leeds, Alex Gerry, Madge Blake, Wilson Wood...

Country: United States

Language: English

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violentlyscreaming · 5 months

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Does anyone know if there’s been a rwby hunger games au. Bc like imagine Yang as Katniss and Ruby as Prim and Jaune as Peeta and Weiss as Cinna and Blake as Madge and Ren as Haymitch and Nora as Effie and—

Or even abosas where Adam is Snow and Blake is Lucy

#Blake could be Peeta but for some reason I don’t the crossover in personality #Madge makes more sense to me. mayors daughter and everything #and Ren was bitter enough in v8 to be Haymitch #ruby rose #yang xiao long #rwby #bumbleby #blake belladonna #weiss schnee

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yeoldenews · 4 months

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For all my fellow name nerds out there, I am very pleased to present the second annual "Gloyd Roberson Memorial List of Actual Human Children Who Wrote Letters to Santa in 1920s/30s Oklahoma".

These aren’t all necessarily “weirder than Gloyd” but fall into three rough categories which I’ve dubbed: “that’s got a nice ring to it”, “if I used this in a novel it would be considered too unrealistic” and “you’ve got 5 seconds to name a character that lives in 1920s Oklahoma, GO!”:

Selvyn Atteberry

Dyer Banfield

Bert Baxter

Hilda Bender

Imogene Berry

Heloise Blakely

Burl Boyer

Clyda Pearl Boyington

Okal Brooks

Vada Jo Bricker

Deverett Brumley

Lee Roy Buck

Vivian May Burdue

Donnie Buster

Elmarie Button

Junior Buzzard

Melchor Caldex

Tycene Calhoun

Tiny Bell Callison

Dapalene Caywood

Edney Clopton

Buster Combs

Georgia Countryman

Vantruba Crockett

Alto Day

Buddie DeWayne

Violet Divine

Elwanda Downing

Cletys Durham

Thurlo Epps

Apple Fields

Floyd Fleetwood

Metherine Franklin

Ula Fay French

Wanda Jo Fronterhouse

Irline Fuller

Jack Gritzmaker

J. D. Grizzle

Billie Jean Gulley

Joline Hardcastle

Kaloolah Herrill

Thelias Hatfield

Elva Heavins

Coleman Hewlett

Helen Hillhouse

Virgil Holderby

Katymae Houston

Myree Huffstutlar

Estelline Hurrypack

Blondie Huhm

Lila Lou Jackson

Denver Jones

Vernell Lambert

Sonny Boy Lockart

Dinkey Long (autocorrect really wanted this to be Donkey Kong)

Bamma Lynn

Rep Madden

Standford Mann

Jack Mattingly

Goldia McGee

Madge Messinger

Mauzell Mullins

Jeffie Wayne Muskrat

Archibald Neighbors

Hazel Nickerson

Eulah Oakley

Lyle Oyler

Milburn Partain

Jackson Payne

Montana Phillips

Bobbie Dean Phoenix

Toots Putman

Madonna Mae Rickey

Cyprine Robertson

Juanelle Schneeberger

Billie Jean Sparks

Texanna Smith

Pansy Stetson

Patsy Ruth Stubblefield

Eldon Sweezy

Hoy Trotter

Pearl Vandorien

Leland Weems

Joe Bob West

Wayness Whitely

Buster Wyatt

John Ira Youngblood

Domby Zinn

#feel free to use for any western themed dnd campaigns #or dust bowl romance novels you may be writing #names #oklahoma #1920s #1930s #dnd #long post

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everythinglucymaudmontgomery · 2 months

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@philgordon

Of COURSE they don’t have it new any more. I had to search my purchase history just to find it at all. 🤦🏻‍♀️

#lucy maud montgomery #l.m. montgomery #anne shirley #lm montgomery #anne of avonlea

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cantsayidont · 6 months

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June 1964. A month into Batman's "New Look" period, Alfred the butler is dramatically killed off in DETECTIVE COMICS #328. Writer Bill Finger gives Alfred a suitably heroic demise, sacrificing his life to save Batman and Robin from the Tri-State Gang.

Ouch. This is fairly grisly for Silver Age DC, and, more significantly, obviously intended to be final. (If you're going to seemingly kill off a character with the intent of bringing them back later, "crushed to death by tons of rock right in front of their closest friends" is probably not the way to go.)

Two points of interest here: First, the Alfred Foundation, as will be explained later, is the antecedent of what later became the Wayne Foundation (whose building was redesigned in the early 1970s), which did not yet exist at this point. Second, it's awkwardly obvious here that Alfred had never been given a canonical last name. In one 1945 story, he'd used the name "Alfred Beagle," but that hadn't been mentioned again afterward. The name "Pennyworth" was first used in 1969, five years after this story.

Why did editor Julius Schwartz kill off Alfred, who'd been a staple of the Batman strip since 1943? According to Schwartz, it was to help lay to rest the insinuations that had been floating around for years (especially in the wake of Frederic Wertham's SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT a decade earlier) that the Wayne household seemed awfully gay. It should be understood that the modern conception of Alfred as a military veteran and one-time badass didn't arise until the 1980s; since his introduction in 1943, Alfred had been primarily a comic relief figure, and generally a bit of a ninny. Schwartz wanted to replace him with a "a sort of chaperoning den mother," which became Dick Grayson's Aunt Harriet, introduced at the end of this story:

Schwartz claimed that he borrowed the name "Aunt Harriet" from the lyrics of the 1929 Hoagy Carmichael standard "Rockin' Chair." Like Alfred, she didn't initially have a last name (the name "Cooper" came from the TV show, and didn't appear in the comics until DETECTIVE COMICS #373). In the comics, she was not as old or quite as matronly as Madge Blake, who played the character on TV; she was perhaps a decade older than Bruce Wayne.

I'm a little skeptical of Schwartz's assertion that his goal in killing off Alfred in favor of Aunt Harriet was to make Bruce and Dick seem less gay. If that was the plan, it wasn't terribly effective: For one, as the TV show demonstrated, her presence in the Wayne household hardly decreased the camp factor, and the principal dynamic of her comics appearances was to have her nosiness constantly threaten to "out" her nephew and his guardian! Moreover, the "New Look" period actually discarded the three recurring female characters who'd previously been positioned as romantic foils (Batwoman/Kathy Kane, Vicki Vale, and Bat-Girl/Betty Kane) — there would be new ones, but they wouldn't appear for a while, nor did Catwoman (who had been absent since 1956 and didn't return to the comics until 1966) — so Schwartz actually cemented Bruce and Dick's "confirmed bachelor" status, at least for a while.

My guess is that Schwartz, who had been given just six months to turn around BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS (whose sales were in very bad shape in 1963–1964), figured that killing Alfred would be an easy way to shake things up a bit. As with the yellow oval Carmine Infantino added to Batman's chest emblem, it was a dramatic but largely cosmetic gesture that didn't really alter the direction of the strip in any very meaningful way.

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northoftheroad · 2 years

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Some of Dick Grayson’s relatives

Uncle George and aunt Clara, in Batman vol 1 # 20

(The writer Sam Humphries, who wrote Nightwing for a short while in 2018, said in an interview he had an idea to use uncle George again. Sadly, nothing came out of it.)

Unknown relatives… in Batman # 213.

Aunt Harriet Cooper, in Batman vol 1 # 170

Aunt Harriet Cooper, in the TV show (Madge Blake)

Cousin, Dr Grayson. All-Star Squadron Annual # 2

Great grandfather William Cobb, in Nightwing vol 4 # 65.

Melinda Zucco, half-sister (John had a short relationship with her mother Meili Lin before marrying Mary). Nightwing vol 4 # 82

Grandfather Mr Grayson, a British millionaire, in "The Dead Voice", an episode of the radio show The Adventures of Superman (1946).

Unnamed uncle. Young Justice (tie-in comic to the tv show) # 6.

Edit, he does have a name, I'm told. Richard, and Dick also has a cousin named John Grayson.

#dick grayson #nightwing #robin #richard grayson

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nerds-yearbook · 14 days

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King Tut made his first appearance in the Batman episode that aired on April 13, 1966. King Tut was the first villian completely created for the show. While Zelda the Great was technically a new character, her story completely mirrored a comic starring a different villian. ("The Curse of Tut", Batman, TV event)

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angelstills · 2 years

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S1, Ep. 7: The Witches Are Out (1964) Bewitched (1964-1972)

#Bewitched #1960s #1964 #TV #Elizabeth Montgomery #Madge Blake #William Asher #Reta Shaw

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forwardlion · 27 days

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ROLEPLAY HISTORY!

The rules are simple! Post characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten, just write down however many you can and tag that number of people). Please repost, don’t reblog!

CURRENT MUSE(S):

Elayne Trakand ( wheel of time ) Perrin Aybara ( wheel of time ) Lanfear ( wheel of time )

discord: I don't write on discord that much but

Simon Lewis ( shadowhunters ) Cardan Greenbriar ( the folk of the air ) Four/Tobias Eaton ( divergent ) Madge Undersee ( the hunger games ) Marlene Mckinnon ( marauders / hp ) Kiara Carrera ( outer banks ) Oscar Speranza ( oc ) Deimos ( mythology ) Psyche ( mythology ) Penthesilea (mythology ) Eurydice ( mythology )

WANT TO WRITE:

This changes monthly so too many lmao.

HAVE WRITTEN:

Gale Hawthorne ( the hunger games ) Finnick Odair ( the hunger games ) Charlie ( oc the hunger games ) Christina ( Divergent ) Fernando ( Divergent ) Uriah ( divergent ) Cara ( divergent ) Isabelle Lightwood ( shadowhunters ) Jace Herondale ( shadowhunters ) George Lovelace the second ( oc shadowhunters ) Cristina Rosales ( shadowhunters ) Mark Blackthorn ( shadowhuntes ) Matthew Fairchild ( shadowhunters ) Emily Cooper ( emily in paris ) Blake Gallo ( chicago fire ) Peter Pevensie ( narnia ) Lucy Pevensie ( narnia ) Susan Pevensie ( narnia ) tagged by: the lovely @caracarnn tagging: YOU! on the dash.

#you can truly see the evolution of my hyperfixations lmao #「 ♡ 」 » extra. ˗ˏˋ𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 ˎˊ˗

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cuartoretorno · 1 year

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Batman (1966 - 1968)

Batman (Adam West)

Robin (Burt Ward)

Joker o El Guasón (César Romero)

El Acertijo/Enigma (The Riddler) (Frank Gorshin y John Astin)

El Pingüino (Burgess Meredith)

Gatubela (Julie Newmar en la 1 ª y 2 ª temporada, por Eartha Kitt en la 3ª temporada y por Lee Meriwether en la película de 1966)

La serie giraba en torno a las aventuras de que viven Batman (interpretado por Adam West) y su ayudante Robin (interpretado por Burt Ward) en su lucha contra el crimen en Gotham City. La identidad secreta de Batman es la del elegante «filántropo millonario» Bruce Wayne, quien vivía en la Mansión Wayne, en las afueras de la ciudad, con su joven entrenado Dick Grayson, el que secretamente era Robin, su fiel mayordomo Alfred (Alan Napier), y la tía Harriet Cooper (Madge Blake). Ayudaban a Batman: Batgirl (Yvonne Craig), el comisario de policía Gordon (Neil Hamilton) y el jefe de policía O'Hara (Stafford Repp).

#Batman #Ciudad Gotica #Batman (Adam West)#Robin (Burt Ward)#Joker o El Guasón (César Romero)#El Pingüino (Burgess Meredith)#El Acertijo/Enigma (The Riddler) (Frank Gorshin y John Astin)#Gatubela (Julie Newmar en la 1 ª y 2 ª temporada por Eartha Kitt en la 3ª temporada y por Lee Meriwether en la película de 1966)#cine de culto #60s film #60s nostalgia #60s vintage #Ron Cartavio #Hot Topic #cigarros pall mall #vans classics #vans old school #cervezas y chicas

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raynbowclown · 1 year

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The Minstrel's Shakedown

The Minstrel’s Shakedown

The Minstrel’s Shakedown / Barbecued Batman? Batman season 2 Van Johnson appears in “The Minstrel’s Shakedown“. He’s both musician and electronic genius. He plans on blackmailing the Gotham City Stack exchange for $250,000 — weekly! (more…)

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#Adam West #Alan Napier #Batman #Burt Ward #Del Moore #Madge Blake #Neil Hamilton #Phyllis Diller #Stafford Repp #Van Johnson

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