Charlotte Rae
Also Known As: Charlotte Rae Lubotsky
Biography: Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was born on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein), who was a childhood friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a retail tire business owner. She is one of three sisters, along with Miriam and the late Beverly (December 21, 1921 – June 2, 1998). She graduated from Shorewood High School in 1944. For the first ten years or so of her life, Rae's family lived in Milwaukee, then moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin. She did radio work and was with the Wauwatosa Children's Theatre. At 16, she was an apprentice with the Port Players, a professional theater company that came for the summer to Milwaukee, with several established actors such as Morton DaCosta, who would eventually direct The Music Man on Broadway. Rae attended Northwestern University, although she did not complete her studies, where she met Cloris Leachman, who many years later succeeded Rae on The Facts of Life for the show's last two seasons. At Northwestern she met several unknown stars and producers, including Agnes Nixon, Charlton Heston, Paul Lynde, Gerald Freedman, Claude Akins and songwriter Sheldon Harnick. When a radio personality told her that her last name wouldn't do, she dropped it, to her father's chagrin. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she performed in the theater and nightclubs. During her early years in New York, she worked at the Village Vanguard (alongside up-and-coming talents such as singer Richard Dyer-Bennet) and at the posh Blue Angel, home to budding talents Barbra Streisand, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974 Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivia Ruiz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 22, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 05, 2018
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Hair
Overview: Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Overview: An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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Rabbit Test
Overview: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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The Worst Witch
Overview: Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard comes to the Academy for a Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!!
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Beane's of Boston
Overview: To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-05
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Our Town
Overview: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-30
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Christmas Cottage
Overview: Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Hello Down There
Overview: Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Words by Heart
Overview: The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Overview: The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Love Sick Love
Overview: Dori and Norman, two stunning and sophisticated serial daters, are destined to endure a terrifying journey through perfect couple-hood: Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, Christmas and New Year. Except with psychopath Dori, it all needs to take place over one weekend deep in the isolated countryside far from help. "Love Sick Love" is a complex and suspenseful journey into the darker side of love.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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Thunder in Paradise
Overview: Terry "Hulk" Hogan stars as R. J. "Hurricane" Spencer who is an ex-Navy S. E. A. L. and confirmed bachelor struggling to make ends meet. In order to save his superboat THUNDER (and ultimately, his business) Spencer is forced into a marriage of convenience with the snobby Megan Whitaker. When Megan gets kidnapped it's up to Spencer and his partner Bru to save the day or risk losing everything.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-22
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Overview: On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-10
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A Different Approach
Overview: An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Nowhere
Overview: In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!
Overview: When Tangie, a teddy bear goes into the Smile-erator on his head, his smile is put on upside down, causing him to end up on the bargain bin on Christmas Eve with other misfit toys, then onto Winkle's Emporium, a discount store. There, Tangie does his level best over the coming year to become a part of some family. He spends his time in Winkle's front window with Jack, a Jack-in-the-box with claustrophobia and Bird, a cuckoo clock bird with agorophobia.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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The Facts of Life Reunion
Overview: After receiving two separate marriage proposals, Natalie asks the gang to reunite in Peekskill, NY.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-18
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
Overview: A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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In Fashion
Overview: This charming musical comedy, set in turn-of-the-century Paris and based on George Feydeau's classic romp, "Tailleur Pour Dames," turns on a case of mistaken identity, chance meetings and deceptions big and small. Starring Charlotte Rae and Max Wright, this performance was taped in front of a live audience in New York, and was originally broadcast in 1974 as part of the Broadway Theater Archive's efforts to bring stage productions to television.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Jenny
Overview: An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Bananas
Overview: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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She's The Best Thing in It
Overview: Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her life has been successful.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-16
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The Facts of Life Goes to Paris
Overview: Mrs. Garrett and the girls travel to Paris, France. Mrs. Garrett takes a cooking class taught by a famous chef as the girls take classes at the sister school of Eastland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-25
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Ricki and the Flash
Overview: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-10
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The Hot Rock
Overview: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Save the Dog!
Overview: Becky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
Overview: The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-30
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Sidewinder 1
Overview: An ageing motocross champ agrees to help design and endorse a new motorcycle.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The story of the Prophet Noah. Violence and corruption fill the earth. To punish this wickedness, God vows to send a cleansing flood. Only one man - Noah - and his family will be spared because they alone honor God's law. God commands him to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal. Once building is under way, Noah and his sons face scorn and sabotage from their sinful neighbors - but they persevere. Noah's faith is vindicated when the heavens erupt with a rainy torrent for 40 days. But God's test of Noah's courage and commitment is just beginning.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Overview: Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-14
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Another Woman's Husband
Overview: When Laurel signs up for swimming lessons, she becomes best friends with her teacher Susan - until they realize Laurel’s boyfriend and Susan’s husband are the same man.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-06
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The Huffless, Puffless, Dragon
Overview: While all the other dragons are puffing away, one dragon refuses to smoke. They all think he's totally square and a number of them challenge him to fights, races, and arm-wrestling contests. As he defeats them all with his clean lungs and nicotine-free body, they begin to think that maybe he's the cool one after all.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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Pinocchio
Overview: Pinocchio is a musical version of the story that aired in the United States on NBC, with pop star Peter Noone playing the puppet.
Genres: Music Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-08
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The World of Sholom Aleichem
Overview: This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-14
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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101 Dalmatians Christmas
Overview: In Disney's fourth adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Cruella de Vil appears in the role of Scrooge, Jasper and Horace as Marley, Cadpig as the ghost of Christmas Past, Rolly as the ghost of Christmas Present, and Spot as the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-06
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Al Lewis: Forever Grandpa
Overview: Al Lewis becomes well-known for his iconic role as Grandpa on "The Munsters".
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-30
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