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Dinah Manoff. Actress: Grease. Dinah Manoff was born in New York City, New York, to screenwriter Arnold Manoff and actress, director, and writer Lee Grant. She began her professional career in the PBS production of "The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike".
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3. Parent (s) Arnold Manoff Lee Grant. Dinah Manoff (born January 25, 1956) [ 1 ] is an American stage, film, and television actress and television director. She is best known for her roles as Carol Weston on Empty Nest, Elaine Lefkowitz on Soap, Marty Maraschino in the film Grease, and Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of I ...
The Los Angeles Times , Nov 21, 1993, N.F. Mendoza. Aside from providing a spot for seeing Lana Turner stumbling around on the beach, Malibu was not necessarily a glamorous place to grow up, says Dinah Manoff, who plays neurotic Carol on NBC’s Empty Nest. Manoff, the daughter of actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff, says that after her ...
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At the same time that director, writer, and actor Orson Welles were making groundbreaking films and radio programs, he was also under FBI investigation as a potential Communist and political subversive. Welles was targeted in part because of his progressive political stances, but the suspicions only grew after the release of his classic 1941 film “...
She was a goddess with a honey-sweet voice. “I remember once seeing her on a train,” says the jazz scholar and author Stanley Crouch. “She had a luminous restrained presence that most superstars try to pretend they have. She really had it.” In 1941 when she was 23, Horne was hired to perform at a unique club in Greenwich Village called Cafe Society...
Though never a member of the Communist Party, silent screen icon Charlie Chaplin drew the ire of the government for his subversive films and support of leftist political causes. The “Little Tramp” creator skewered the capitalist and industrial society, as did other movies such as “Modern Times,” “The Great Dictator” and “Monsieur Verdoux,” and he w...
In 1951 Grant gave an impassioned eulogy at the memorial service for actor J. Edward Bromberg, whose early death, she implied, was caused by the stress of being called before House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). After her eulogy was published, she was summoned by the same committee to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Mano...
The man who helped create hardboiled fiction with detective novels such as “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man” was also an avowed anti-fascist and Communist Party member. After he wrote The Thin Man, Hammett never wrote another novel and dedicated himself to left-wing political causes, including civil rights. When Pearl Harbor was bombed during...
Nov 21, 1993 · Manoff, the daughter of actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff, says that after her mother got a role on the television series “Peyton Place” in 1965, Grant moved her family to the beach ...
DINAH MANOFF was born in New York City to actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff. She won both a Theater World and Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's I Ought To Be In Pictures. She reprised the role in the motion picture of the same title.
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Biography. Read More. This petite daughter of blacklisted Oscar-winning actress-director Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff brought impeccable comic timing to her stage and screen roles. Dinah Manoff began her career as a teenager in small roles in the 1976 PBS production "The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike" and NBC's "Raid on Entebbe" (1977).
