In Cat Ballou, a pair of narrators (the “Shouters,” played by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye) appear throughout the film, to tell the story. The Farrelly Brothers consider Cat Ballou to be their favorite film, and in their movie There’s Something About Mary,, they incorporated a pair of narrators (played by Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkin) as an homage to the earlier film.
No one, although it does say that the President “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls [and] he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers…” That, and Washington’s high public standing, and the roughly analogous role of the President to kings and potentates in other countries, was enough to establish him in the role of American head of state from the earliest days of the republic.
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Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye, Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkin never played George Washington
Stubby Kaye is probably best remembered for his role as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, first on Broadway, then in the 1955 film. He steals the show with his rendition of “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.”
Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California, was in the second full year of his Vice Presidency in 1955.
The California Raisins were a group of animated anthropomorphic raisins, which originally appeared in a 1986 television advertisement for the California Raisin Advisory Board. In the ad, which was created by the Foote, Cone and Belding* ad agency, and animated by Vinton Studios, the Raisins danced to a cover version of Marvin Gaye’s song “I Heard it Through the Grapevine.”
Due to the popularity of the commercial, the Raisins appeared in several prime-time TV specials, a Saturday morning cartoon, and a range of merchandising in the late '80s and early '90s.
(*- the ad agency where I worked for twelve years 
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The original ad:
“I Heard it Through the Grapevine.” was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. It was first recorded by The Miracles, but but their version wasn’t released until August 1968 on their album Special Occasion. The first recording of the song to be released was by Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967. That single went to #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and #2 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and became the biggest selling Motown single to date. The single released by Marvin Gaye in 1968 went to #1 on the Pop Singles chart for seven weeks and overtook the Gladys Knight version of being the biggest hit single on the Motown label.
In 2009, Gladys Knight performed “The Lord’s Prayer” and “His Eye is on the Sparrow” at Michael Jackson’s funeral.
“Gladys” is originally a Welsh name, meaning “princess” or “ royalty”.
According to Wiki, there are currently six members of the British royal family who hold the rank of princess: Charlotte, Beatrice, Eugenie, Louise, Ann, and Alexandra. There are another seven women who hold the rank of princess by virtue of marriage.
All six of those names are the names of queens or an empress, two of whom were queens regnant:
Queen Charlotte, queen consort of King George III of Great Britain;
Queen Beatrice, queen regnant of the Netherlands;
Empress Eugénie, empress consort of Emperor Napoleon III;
Queen Louise, queen consort of King Gustaf VI of Sweden;
Queen Anne, queen regnant of England and Scotland and then of Great Britain;
Queen Alexandra, queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
Actress Tina Louise, who is best-known for playing actress Ginger Grant on the TV series Gilligan’s Island, came to dislike the show and her role, as she felt it had typecast her and ruined her career. Louise refused to appear in any of the three made-for-TV reunion movies in the late '70s and early '80s; the role of Ginger was recast, with Judith Baldwin playing her in the first two films, and Constance Forslund in the third.
Although Tina Louise was cast as ‘Ginger Grant’, the beautiful Hollywood movie star, it was actually Dawn Wells, who portrayed the Kansas girl-next-door ‘Mary Ann Summers’, who was the true beauty queen. In 1959, she won the title of “Miss Nevada” and represented her state in the 1960 “Miss America” pageant, performing a dramatic reading from Antigone during the talent portion of the event.
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Gilligan’s Island aired for just three seasons (September, 1964 to April, 1967), but there were a total of 98 episodes. The first season was shot in black-and-white, while the next two seasons were shot in color.
Dawn Wells passed away on December 30, 2020. Her passing left Tina Louise as the only surviving cast member of the show. She is currently 87 years old.
Tina Louise appeared together with Jayne Mansfield in a Frederick’s of Hollywood catalog. Jayne Mansfield almost got the role of Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s Island. Mansfield turned down the role. A few years later she tragically perished in a car crash outside of New Orleans.
The original opening-credits sequence of Gilligan’s Island was filmed in black and white soon after the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. If you look carefully, you can see that the marina flag is at half-mast.
In the 240+ years of American history, four sitting presidents have been assassinated: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy. Additionally, two more presidents have been wounded in assassination attempts: Theodore Roosevelt and Reagan.
There have been assassination attempts and plots against numerous other presidents.
No Canadian prime minister has been assainated and only two have died in office since 1867.
When his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated in 1984, her son Rajiv Ghandi assumed power and became India’s sixth Prime Minister. His attempts to discourage separatist movements in the Pujab state and Kashmir region backfired, and that, plus a number of financial scandals forced him to resign in 1989. In 1991, while campaigning for the next round of parliamentary elections, he was assassinated along with 16 others by a suicide bomber associated with the Tamil Tigers. The Tamil militants reportedly sought revenge against Gandhi because the Indian Troops he sent to Sri Lanka to enforce peace ended up fighting Tamil separatist guerillas.
Daniel Day Lewis’s first credited film role, at age 24, was in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi. He plays Colin, a South African who harasses Gandhi, and is on screen for under 2 minutes.
Over the course of his career, actor Daniel Day-Lewis has taken several breaks from acting.