Blog Post Singer/ Actress Estelle Reiner Has Died Estelle Reiner grew up in the Bronx and had a career on radio as a singer. She was a respected Jazz singer until her death. Estelle was married to comedic legend (and Archive interviewee) Carl Reiner in 1943 and had 3 children. In 1989 she appeared in son Rob Reiner's film "When Harry Met Sally"...
Blog Post MSN Entertainment Celebrates 60 Years Of Emmy MSN and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are presenting classic clips from 60 years of the Primetime Emmy Awards. Additionally, Emmy winners who have been interviewed by the Archive of American Television share their stories about their Emmy-winning work and their experiences on Emmy...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Jerry Lewis Discusses the MDA Telethon The 43rd annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast live from Las Vegas on Sunday, August 31. “I’ll never wave the white flag in the fight against muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting diseases,” Lewis has said. “Not only is the...
Blog Post TV Golden Age Writer Tad Mosel has Died Tad Mosel, one of the group of writers who came to define the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s, has died at the age of 86. Among Mosel's most well-known teleplays were: "The Out-of-Towners" (for Studio One ), "The Five Dollar Bill" (for Studio One ), and an adaptation of "The Petrified Forest...
Blog Post TV's Most Memorable Moments - Vote online! The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards are soon approaching, and many of our Archive interviewees have been honored with nominations this year. Visit emmys.com/abc to watch and vote on your favorite comedy and dramatic moments from classic television shows. The audience favorites will be revealed on the...
Blog Post The Many Layers of Julia Child The National Women's History Museum exhibit, Clandestine Women: The Untold Stories of Women in Espionage, highlights the story of an unlikely operative, Julia Child. It has recently been brought to light that decades before becoming a famous chef, Julia Child, in 1944, worked for the OSS. She...
Blog Post 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Quiz Show Scandals A year before Charles Van Doren and Herb Stempel squared off on Twenty-One , a contestant on the quiz show Dotto discovered that the program he was on was rigged. As related in Jeff Kisseloff's The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961 , on August 15, 1958 Dotto contestant Edward Hilgemeier...
Blog Post 2008 Summer Olympics Begin Today The Summer Olympics begin today from Beijing, China. NBC Universal will be airing the most Olympic coverage in history with 3,600 hours on NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo, Universal HD and NBCOlympics.com. American television began to air the Olympic Games as early as August 1936. Variety...
Blog Post Manager Bernie Brillstein Has Died Bernie Brillstein, who represented many comedy legends and helped shephard classic television programming, has died at age 77. Bernie Brillstein full 8-part interview will be online soon and can be viewed in its entirety at Academy Headquarters. Interview description: Brillstein talked about his...
