Prospect Studios Built in 1919 as the Vitagraph Studios, the complex, just a few blocks from Walt Disney’s uncle’s home, is the longest-operating studio in Hollywood, and eventually became a home to ABC. The news broadcasts originated there for many years, and the soundstages housed the series Grey’s Anatomy and soaps such as General Hospital …
See moreProtector, The (television) Hour-long series on Lifetime, premiering on June 12, 2011, and ending on September 19, 2011. Divorced mother Gloria Sheppard juggles her demanding personal and professional life as an intuitive LAPD homicide detective while raising two boys, with the live-in help of her troubled younger brother Davey. Stars Ally Walker (Gloria Sheppard), Tisha …
See moreProsky, Robert (1930-2008) Actor, appeared in Outrageous Fortune (Stanislov Korzenowski), Green Card (Bronte’s lawyer), and The Scarlet Letter (Horace Stonehall).
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Proud Family, The (television) An animated sitcom on Disney Channel that follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl, along with her best friend, the sassy and scheming Dijonay. Premiered on September 21, 2001. Voices include Kyla Pratt (Penny Proud), Tommy Davidson (Oscar Proud), Paula Jai Parker (Trudy Proud), Jo Marie …
See morePromised Land, The (television) Television show; episode 4 of Daniel Boone.
See moreProperty Rights and Pollution (film) Educational film; from The People on Market Street series, produced by Terry Kahn; released in September 1977. The economic concepts of property rights and pollution are discussed, focusing on the theft of a bicycle.
See moreProposal, The (film) When high-powered book editor Margaret Tate faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking executive declares that she is actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, whom she has tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads …
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Prom (film) Several intersecting stories unfold at Brookside High School as the big dance approaches and excitement mounts for the big night. Boys are figuring out who to ask to the prom and girls are shopping for dresses. Senior class president, Nova Prescott, a real go-getter and the prom organizer, plans the perfect prom, only …
See moreProgress Report, A/Nature’s Half Acre (television) Television show; aired on February 9, 1955. Directed by Winston Hibler, Al Teeter. Walt Disney takes his viewers by helicopter to Anaheim and shows them some previews of Disneyland park, including stop-motion photography of construction, a model of Main Street, U.S.A., and a drive by car through the yet-to-be-filled …
See moreProject Florida (film) Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale models, the Preview Center, and Walt Disney discussing his hopes for the project from an earlier 1966 film. 16mm release in 1971. Directed by James Algar.
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