TV Shows
This children's television show had live actors and marionettes, there were a couple of cowboys, an Indian princess, a clown and a live studio audience....
What is The Howdy Doody Show
The song name corresponding to these lyrics, "Well since my baby left me, I have a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street...." is
What is Heartbreak Hotel
This Disney film released in 1942 was about a little fawn who learns about life, love and friends...
What is Bambi
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, he starred in many movies, served in the army and became known as "The Kind of Rock and Roll" or simply, "The King."
Who is Elvis Presley
Even though the life of a compulsive Gambler is spinning out of control, the compulsive gambler feels in...
What is control
Series about a Cuban born band leader and his daffy wife who seems to get herself into all kinds of predicaments
The Man in Black has this to say about the writing of this 1956 hit: "I was newly married at the time, and I suppose I was laying out my pledge of devotion." The name of this hit is....
Hint: Because you are mine...
In this 1940 animated musical film, Mickey Mouse conducted the orchestra....
What is Fantasia
Her movies included Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, National Velvet and Cleopatra while her husbands include Richard Burton (twice), Eddie Fisher and most recently, construction worker Larry Fortensky
Who is Elizabeth Taylor
The majority of compulsive gamblers have one of these early on...it is the hook that keeps them gambling
What is "the big win"
This long running show takes place in Dodge City
What is Gunsmoke
Chuck Berry's song about a man who lived: "Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans. Way back up in the woods among the evergreens. There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood. Where lived a man named...."
Who is Johnny B. Goode
In this heartwarming 1940's classic film, an angel helps a despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he was never born.
What is It's a Wonderful Life
This well known British actress starred in a romantic comdey about a Roman princess who becomes frustrated with her tight schedule and hectic life, and ventures out to see Rome
Who is Audrey Hepburn
There are 3 phases in the journey of someone going from being a social gambler to a compulsive gambler: Winning is the first, name the other 2 phases.
What are losing and desperate
Long running series about a brilliant defense attorney and his staff who solved many crimes with surprise witnesses
What is Perry Mason
Written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison, lyrics to this song include the line: "you say you're gonna leave me. You know it's a like, 'cause...."
What is That'll be the Day
When 2 musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state disguised as women in an all female band. This comedy starred Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.
What is Some Like It Hot
Best known as a cowboy in John Ford directed westerns such as Fort Apache, Stagecoach, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, he won an Academy Award for True Grit
Who is John Wayne
Within one year of this happening, a senior is more susceptible to developing a gambling problem.
What is the loss of a spouse
On January 14, 1952, this long running NBC morning news show went on the air...
What is The Today Show
This Ray Charles hit is about a woman (or a state) that he thinks about all of the time.
What is Georgia on my Mind
This Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Jimmy Stewart tells the story of a wheelchair bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced that one of them has committed murder.
What is Rear Window
Both an Academy Award-winning actor and a Grammy Award-winning singer. 'Ole Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board is perhaps best known as the leader of the Rat Pack, a group which included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.
As individual live well into their 70's, 80's, and 90's, they experience repeated losses-the death of a spouse and other family members and friends, loss of health. loss of income and perhaps loss of home. In light of all of these losses, gambling provides some people the opportunity to "get away" or ........ from their pain.
What is an escape