Cinecon 48 Guests
We have not announced any guests for Cinecon 48 yet but will be doing so in the near future. Until then please take a look at the actors that we honored last year at Cinecon 47.
Among the celebrity guests that we honored with the Cinecon Career Achievement Award at Cinecon 47 were actors Julie Adams, Jimmy Lydon and Fay McKenzie.
The Cinecon 47 Career Achievement Award banquet was held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on Sunday evening, September 4, 2011.
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JULIE ADAMS
Julie Adams moved to California in the 1940s and worked as a secretary while studying acting. After landing a small role in Paramount's Red Hot and Blue (1949), she appeared in seven James Ellison-Russell Hayden Westerns for Lippert Pictures under her real name, Betty Adams. She was signed by Universal in 1949 and renamed Julia Adams, before settling on Julie Adams as her professional name in the early 1950s. Among Julie’s best-remembered films are The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Hollywood Story (1951), Bend of the River (1952), Six Bridges to Cross (1955) and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957).
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JIMMY LYDON
Jimmy Lydon made his Broadway stage debut was in the 1937 play Western Waters. Entering films in 1939, Jimmy appeared in such films as Tom Brown's School Days (1940), The Mad Martindales (1942), Life with Father (1947), and The Time of Your Life (1948), but will always be remembered for his role as teenager Henry Aldrich in the 1941-1944 Paramount Pictures series. Lydon starred in The First Hundred Years on CBS, TV’s first daytime drama—or soap opera. In the 1950s, Lydon started to split his time between assignments behind, as well as in front of the camera, helping to create 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and becoming a TV production executive.
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FAY MCKENZIE
Fay McKenzie began her film career as a child in silent pictures. Among her early films was the 1924 Photoplay Medal winner, The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln. As a teenage in the early 1930s Fay appeared in a number of poverty row oaters with the likes of Wally Wales and Buddy Roosevelt. Fay is best remembered for her work with Gene Autry at Republic, where she was the feminine interest in Down Mexico Way (1941), Sierra Sue (1941), Home in Wyomin’ (1942), Heart of the Rio Grande (1942) and Cowboy Serenade (1942); and also appeared in a number of films for director Blake Edwards, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and The Party (1968).
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