[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND DAVID FROST

Hal Bates and David Frost at a book signing event for the Frost biography Anatomy of a Success by Wallace Rayburn, in 1968.  That may be Rona Barrett on the left in the bottom photograph.

Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host.

After graduating from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the UK when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on US television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former United States President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a stage play and film.

Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch of ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of Through the Keyhole. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly programme The Frost Interview.

Frost died on 31 August 2013, aged 74, on board the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth, on which he had been engaged as a speaker. In March 2014, his memorial stone was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey for his contribution to British culture

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND ANN MARGRET AND JULIET PROWSE

 And with JOHN MCCOOK and ALLAN CARR. Photography by Peter C. Borsari.

Allan Carr (May 27, 1937 – June 29, 1999) was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. Carr was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.

John Thomas McCook (born June 20, 1944) is an American actor best known for his roles on daytime soap operas. Since 1987, he has played the role of Eric Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. From 1976 to February 1980, he portrayed the character of Lance Prentiss on The Young and the Restless. In addition, he has appeared as a guest in episodes on dozens of primetime series. B&B co-star Winsor Harmon once starred with McCook on an episode of Acapulco H.E.A.T. filmed in Mexico.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND UNKNOWN WOMAN

Date unknown; location unknown. The logo on her cap may provide a clue: "FF." Hotel? Restaurant?

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND MONTY HALL

Photography by Walter Zurlinden.
 
Monte Halparin, (born August 25, 1921), better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born MC, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let's Make a Deal.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND UNKNOWN MAN #1

A smiling set-up shot with Hal Bates and Unknown. Identification requested.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND OTTO PREMINGER

Otto Preminger appearing for a KABC-AM Radio interview. Selma Bates and unknown DJ attending. Date unknown.

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian American theatre and film director.

After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945) while in the 1950s and '60s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had a few acting roles.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND DOROTHY MCGUIRE

Date and location unknown. Possibly Disneyland or Pacific Ocean Park.

Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American actress.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, the only child of Thomas and Isabelle (née Trapp) McGuire, she began her acting career on the stage at the Omaha Community Playhouse. Eventually, she reached Broadway, first appearing as an understudy to Martha Scott in Our Town, and subsequently starring in the domestic comedy, Claudia.

Brought to Hollywood by producer David O. Selznick on the strength of her stage performance, McGuire starred in her first film, a movie adaptation of her Broadway success, Claudia, and portrayed the character of a child bride who almost destroys her marriage through her selfishness. Her inaugural screen performance was popular with both the public and critics alike and was the catalyst for not only a sequel, Claudia and David (both movies co-starring Robert Young), but also for numerous other film roles.

By 1945, at the age of 29, she was already playing mother roles, in such movies as A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1947 for Gentleman's Agreement. Other notable films include Till the End of Time, The Enchanted Cottage, A Summer Place, Three Coins in the Fountain, Friendly Persuasion, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

McGuire had a long Hollywood career. Her versatility served her well in taut melodramas, such as The Spiral Staircase and Make Haste to Live, as well as in light, frothy comedies, such as Mother Didn't Tell Me and Mister 880.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND KABC RADIO 79 STAFF

Circa 1970.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND ROUBEN MAMOULIAN

Roupen Zachary Mamoulian (pronunciation perhaps roo-BEN mah-mool-YAHN) (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.

He directed his first feature film in 1929, Applause, which was one of the earliest talkies. It was a landmark film owing to Mamoulian's innovative use of camera movement and sound, and these qualities were carried through to his other films released in the 1930s. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) benefits from having been made before the Production Code came into full force, and is regularly considered the best version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale. Queen Christina (1933) was the last film Greta Garbo made with John Gilbert. The musical film Love Me Tonight was released in 1932.
He directed the first three-strip Technicolor film, Becky Sharp (1935), based on Thackeray's Vanity Fair, as well as the 1937 musical High, Wide, and Handsome. His next two films earned him wide admiration, The Mark of Zorro (1940) and Blood and Sand (1941), both remakes of silent films. Blood and Sand, on bull fighting, was filmed in Technicolor, and used color schemes based on the work of Spanish artists such as Diego Velázquez and El Greco. His foray into screwball comedy genre in 1942 was a success with Rings on Her Fingers starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney.
His last completed musical film was MGM's 1957 film version of the Cole Porter musical Silk Stockings. This had been one of Porter's less successful stage musicals and was based on the 1939 Greta Garbo classic Ninotchka. The film Silk Stockings starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, with Janis Paige and Peter Lorre in support (with Lorre singing in the film).

Mamoulian's film directing career came to an end when he was fired from two consecutive films, Porgy and Bess (1959) and Cleopatra (1963). He had previously been fired as director of Laura (1944). After directing the highly successful original stage productions of Oklahoma! and Carousel, he worked on only a few other theatrical productions, such as St. Louis Woman, which introduced Pearl Bailey to Broadway audiences.

He was personally recruited by Directors Guild of America (DGA) co-founder King Vidor in 1936 to help unionize fellow movie directors. Mamoulian's lifelong allegiance to the DGA, and more so his general unwillingness to compromise, contributed to his being targeted in Hollywood blacklisting of the 1950s.



He died in 1987 of natural causes at the age of 90 in Woodland Hills, California. His wife Azadia died in 1999 at the age of 97.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND AGNES MOOREHEAD

At a Hollywood Press Club function. Date unknown.

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an American actress whose career of more than three decades included work in radio, stage, film, and television. She is chiefly known for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched. She was also notable for her film roles in Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, All That Heaven Allows, and Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

While rarely playing leads in films, Moorehead's skill at character development and range earned her one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards in addition to four Academy Award and six Emmy Award nominations. Moorehead's transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AT THE CONTROLS

Possibly in the KABC-Radio plane, circa 1970.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND WILLIAM GRANT STILL

With Bob Walsh, ABC Radio (left) and Mrs. Grant (center.

William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony (his first symphony) performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to have an opera performed on national television. He is often referred to as "the Dean" of African-American composers.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND RONALD REAGAN

And with a whole bunch of other people. Date unknown; location unknown.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND FERDINAND MENDENHALL

With Bob Walsh of ABC Radio on right. Presentation made in June 1970.

From the New York Times, 17 February 1981: 

MONTEREY, Calif., Feb. 16— Ferdinand Mendenhall, a vice president of The Daily News of Los Angeles, died of an apparent heart attack here Saturday. He was 72 years old. Mr. Mendenhall, of Beverly Hills, was in Monterey to attend the California Newspaper Publishers Association convention. 

He was found unconscious in his hotel room. 

Mr. Mendenhall, born in Burlington Junction, Miss., grew up in the suburban San Fernando Valley. His newspaper recently changed its name from The Valley News to The Daily News. It is owned by the Tribune Company of Chicago. 

Mr. Mendenhall served as deputy chief of protocol for California for his friend, Gov. Ronald Reagan. He is survived by his wife, Doris; three daughters, Doris Anne, Laura Kate and Margo Mia, and a brother, John, of Seattle, Wash. 

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND MICHAEL ANSARA AND AL COOMBS

Michael George Ansara (April 15, 1922 – July 31, 2013) was a Syrian-born American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Cochise in the American television series Broken Arrow, Kane in the 1979–1981 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Commander Kang on three different Star Trek television series, Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart on the NBC series, Law of the Plainsman, and providing the voice for Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series and several of its spin-offs.

Photograph by Peter C. Borsari.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND RAY MILLAND AND ROSY GRIER

Most probably during production of "The Beast With Two Heads" (1972).

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND NATIONAL ENQUIRER STAFF

Hal Bates with persons unknown, date unknown. May be National Enquirer event, recently opened Los Angeles bureau. Photographer: Walter Zurlinden.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Date unknown; unknown location. Perhaps Cocoanut Grove?

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND THE ELEGANT COUPLE

Hal Bates with persons unknown. Photographer: Peter C. Borari.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AND WALTER BRENNAN

With Selma Bates. Photography by Allan J. Studley.