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
  • The new Mondays Light 12-packs will be available soon for purchase at retailers nationwide, the company said.
    Peter Burke, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • When Braun gave birth to the couple’s daughter and went on maternity leave, she was employed as a social media manager for a Swiss company that wasn’t friendly towards remote work.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • The Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company—skilled, sympathetic, but still searching for a strong identity—returns to its home away from home, the Joyce, for the tenth time.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Over the years, as many as 45,000 people have turned out to applaud marching bands, baton twirlers, dignitaries in classic cars and dance troupes.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Because protests were expected, unusual numbers of law enforcement officers and National Guard troops worked the parade route in the afternoon and Bush and first lady Laura Bush got out of their bulletproof limousine to walk part of the route.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The Biden administration decided to move ahead with Trump’s first-term decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
    Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Stock company.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stock%20company. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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