ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Comics: People On Paper (MGM/1945)

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Comics: People On Paper (MGM/1945)

Once more ASIFA-Hollywood has dug deep and come up with pure gold: a 1945 MGM short subject that shows the top newspaper cartoonists of the day at work in their studios and homes...including our very own Milton Caniff (the movie clip is at the bottom of their post). A big THANKS goes out to Steve Worth, Bill Turner and the rest of the gang at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive for helping to keep Milton's memory alive. (Click on the picture to see the article.)

Milton Caniff
(Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon)
NOTE that the ASIFA website appears to be no more, but here is a link to an archived copy of the original post on archive.org, click HERE.

The Girls of Steve Canyon - Part 1 - Mary Tyler Moore

#9227-27 - Lt. Col. Steve Canyon (Dean Fredericks) is lining up a date for the evening on his return to his base in Puerto Rico, after completing his mission in the STEVE CANYON episode, "STRIKE FORCE."

That's what the legend says on the back of this original publicity photo...not a thing about the "First Spanish Girl" (Yvonne Preble, middle) as listed in the on-screen credits, or the "Second Spanish Girl" (Mary Tyler Moore, right) in one of her very first appearances on television! Remember, you saw it here first, again another rare and probably never before published photo. It's interesting that quite a few MTM/Dick Van Dyke Show alumni probably met on this series!

About this episode:

"STRIKE FORCE" - Show #24 (actual)
Pegasus Production #9227
First Aired on NBC March 5, 1959
Repeated September 9, 1959 (NBC), and on July 21st 1960 (ABC)
Photographed: Jan 8, 1959 at Universal-International Studios, Hollywood, California U.S.A.
When in Hollywood visit Universal Studios Tour. (Ask for Babs...)
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Written by David Haft and Michael Meshekoff
Synopsis: Canyon and the men at Big Thunder take part in a training exercise in which a USAF task force is sent to rendezvous with another in the mid-Atlantic for an all out assault on enemy fortifications.

Featuring:
Jerry Paris.........................................Major "Willie" Williston
William Bryant...................................Captain Connors
Robert Sampson.................................Tower Operator
Don Fenwick......................................Airman
Yvonne Preble....................................First Spanish Girl
Mary Moore.......................................Second Spanish Girl

“This film is dedicated to the Tactical Air Command of the United States Air Force”