stock company

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Recent Examples of stock company But Morgan had appeared opposite Jack Webb in the film noir movies Dark City (1950), Appointment with Danger (1951), and Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show. Marc Berman, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 Joan Benedict Steiger, who was part of the original stock company for Candid Camera and later became the wife of actor Rod Steiger, died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke. Greg Evans, Deadline, 8 July 2024 Benedict was a member of Allen Funt’s stock company for Candid Camera. Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2024 The song plays as the stock company Robin Hood is introduced. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023 While a student at the old Calvert Hall College on Mulberry Street in downtown Baltimore, Bushman began acting in 1896, taking walk-on parts with a Baltimore stock company, while modeling for the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Charcoal Club. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2021 Another word about the Emmett/Furla Oasis Films stock company behind so many of these films: Tyler Jon Olson, the wounded brother, is in ten of these; Lydia Hull, the doc’s wife, is in six. Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021 Nolan likes to use a stock company of actors, with not only Branagh, but Murphy, Damon and Modine serving as return collaborators. Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022 The pair are longtime collaborators (Nolan has a stock company of players like Tom Hardy, Michael Caine and Christian Bale who have popped up in multiple films). Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
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Noun
  • Teenagers’ distrust of Big Tech echo a growing dissatisfaction with major tech companies in the United States.
    Liam Reilly, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In fact the business landscape is littered with examples of talented employees who left companies taking generous packages to go on to great success.
    Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That is also the reason this final show is taking place in winter instead of spring when most previous stop/time shows happened, so members of the troupe can spend time with their families around graduation time.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Among the most successful and socially complicated acts in Black vaudeville was the Whitman Sisters: a troupe composed of Mabel, Essie, Alberta, and Alice Whitman.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Congolese government accused its neighbor Rwanda of equipping the M23 with both weapons and troops.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Japan is a security treaty ally of the U.S., where the Pentagon deploys aircraft, ships, and troops.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Stock company.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stock%20company. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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