Interview Pam Polifroni In her two-hour interview, Pam Polifroni (1929-2019) talks about her early life, and her first job in casting on The Loretta Young Show. She talked about her time at Selmur Productions where she cast General Hospital and Day in Court . She describes her years working on Gunsmoke , and casting guest...
Blog Post Hispanic Heritage Month It's Hispanic Heritage Month, and we're celebrating with our Google Cultural Institute Exhibit: Latinos in News and Entertainment.
Show Cheers Cheers , NBC's longest running comedy series, aired from 1982-1993, at 9:00 P.M. Thursdays. The show narrowly escaped cancellation during its first season and took several years to develop a strong following. By 1985, however, Cheers was one of television's most popular shows. It garnered top ten...
Interview Roy Huggins In his five-hour interview, Roy Huggins (1914-2002) talks about his early years as a novelist and member of the Communist Party. He recalls getting into screenwriting at Columbia Pictures with films like Hangman's Knot , and subsequently being blacklisted. He describes testifying in front of the...
Interview Cybill Shepherd In her two-hour interview, Cybill Shepherd describes her childhood growing up in Memphis, TN and discusses her early modeling career. She talks about her first film role in The Last Picture Show and working with director Peter Bogdanovich, and touches on other film roles (in The Heartbreak Kid and...
Interview Elma Farnsworth In her seven-hour interview, Elma Farnsworth (1908-2006) discusses her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's first television invention - the image dissector tube - and the excitement of seeing its first moving image. She describes how Philo toiled to create the first electronic television, while RCA and...
