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Tsuruta Station (鶴田駅, Tsuruta-eki) is a JR East railway station located in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It located on the Nikkō Line and was opened on September 13, 1902.

History

September 13, 1902: Station opened

Prior to this, the area was served by Togami Station, which was located to the west of present-day Tsuruta Station. Togami Station was closed with the opening of Tsuruta.

2002: All freight service is suspended.

In the past, Tsuruta station was connected via a spur line to the Tobu Ōya Line.

Adjacent stations

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+[[Image:JR East Tsuruta Station.jpg|thumb|Tsuruta Station]]
-{{Infobox Actor
+[[Image:JR East Tsuruta Station platform.jpg|thumb|Tsuruta Station's platform]]
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+{{nihongo|'''Tsuruta Station'''|鶴田駅|Tsuruta-eki}} is a [[East Japan Railway Company|JR East]] railway station located in [[Utsunomiya, Tochigi|Utsunomiya]], [[Tochigi Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. It located on the [[Nikkō Line]] and was opened on [[September 13]], [[1902]].
-| name        = Joel McCrea
-| image       = Joel McCrea in Woman Wanted trailer.jpg
-| imagesize   = 230px
-| caption     = in the trailer for ''[[Woman Wanted]]'' ({{fy|1935}})
-| birthname   = Joel Albert McCrea
-| birthdate   = November 5, {{fy|1905}}
-| location    = [[South Pasadena, California]]
-| deathdate   = October 20, {{fy|1990}}, aged 84
-| deathplace  = [[Los Angeles, California]]
-| yearsactive = {{fy|1927}}&ndash;{{fy|1976}}
-| spouse      = [[Frances Dee]] ''(1933-1990)''
-}}
-'''Joel Albert McCrea''', (November 5, {{fy|1905}}&ndash;October 20, {{fy|1990}}) was an [[American (word)|American]] actor and [[film star]] whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.
+==History==
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+*[[September 13]], [[1902]]: Station opened
-==Film career==
+:* Prior to this, the area was served by '''Togami''' Station, which was located to the west of present-day Tsuruta Station. Togami Station was closed with the opening of Tsuruta.
-McCrea was born in [[South Pasadena, California]], the son of Thomas McCrea, who was an executive with the L.A. Gas & Electric Company,<ref name=tcmbio>{{tcmdb name|126737}}</ref> As a boy, he had a paper route, and delivered the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' to [[Cecil B. DeMille]] and other people in the film industry.  He also had the opportunity to watch [[D. W. Griffith]] filming ''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]''<ref name=tcmbio />
+*2002: All freight service is suspended.
+:*In the past, Tsuruta station was connected via a spur line to the [[Tobu Ōya Line]].
-After graduating from [[Pomona College]], where he had acted on stage, and doing some stage work at the [[Pasadena Playhouse]], McCrea started to try to break into films.  His first connection with the film industry, other than his boyhood paper route, was holding horses for cowboy stars [[William S. Hart]] and [[Tom Mix]].<ref name=tcmbio /> He worked as an extra, stunt man and bit player from 1927 to 1928, when he signed a contract with [[MGM]], where he was cast in a major role in ''[[The Jazz Age (film)|The Jazz Age]]'' ({{fy|1929}}), and got his first leading role that same year, in ''[[The Silver Hoard]]''.<ref name=tcmbio />  He moved to [[RKO]] in 1930, where he established himself as a handsome leading man who was considered versatile enough to star in both dramas and comedies.
+==Adjacent stations==
-In the 1930s, McCrea starred in ''[[Bird of Paradise (1932 Film)]]'' ({{fy|1932}}), directed by [[King Vidor]], causing controversy for his scenes with [[Dolores del Rio]].  In {{fy|1934}}, he made his first appearances with two leading ladies he would be paired with often: with [[Miriam Hopkins]] he made ''[[The Richest Girl in the World]]'', the first of their five films together,<ref>McCrea and Hopkins appeared together in ''[[The Richest Girl in the World]]'' ({{fy|1934}}), ''[[Barbary Coast (film)|Barbary Coast]]'' ({{fy|1935}}), ''[[Splendor]]'' (1935), ''[[These Three]]'' ({{fy|1936}}) and ''[[Woman Chases Man]]'' ({{fy|1937}}).</ref> and with [[Barbara Stanwyck]] he appeared in ''[[Gambling Lady]]'', the first of their six films.<ref>McCrea and Stanwyck appeared together in ''[[Gambling Lady]]'' ({{fy|1934}}), ''[[Banjo on My Knee]]'' ({{fy|1936}}), ''[[Internes Can't Take Money]]'' ({{fy|1937}}), ''[[Union Pacific (film)|Union Pacific]]'' ({{fy|1939}}), ''[[The Great Man's Lady]]'' ({{fy|1942}}) and ''[[Trooper Hook]]'' ({{fy|1957}}).</ref> Later in the decade, he was the first actor to play "Dr. Kildare", in the film ''[[Internes Can't Take Money]]'' ({{fy|1937}}), and he starred in two large-scale westerns, ''[[Wells Fargo (film)|Wells Fargo]]'' (1937) with his wife [[Francis Dee]], and Cecil B. DeMille's ''[[Union Pacific (film)|Union Pacific]]'' ({{fy|1939}}).
+{{Nikkō Line}}
+{{coord missing|Japan}}
-McCrea reached the peak of his early career in the early 1940s, in such films as [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s  ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]'' ({{fy|1940}}) and two by [[Preston Sturges]], ''[[Sullivan's Travels]]'' ({{fy|1941}}), and ''[[The Palm Beach Story]]'' ({{fy|1942}}).<ref>McCrea also appeared in Sturges' film ''[[The Great Moment]]'', which was filmed in 1942 but not released until {{fy|1944}} because of studio interference; it was not a success.</ref>
+[[Category:Railway stations in Tochigi Prefecture]]
-McCrea also starred in two [[William A. Wellman]] westerns, ''[[The Great Man's Lady]]'' ({{fy|1942}}), again with Stanwyck, and ''[[Buffalo Bill (1944 film)|Buffalo Bill]]'', with character actor [[Edgar Buchanan]] {{fy|1944}}).  After the success of ''[[The Virginian (1946 film)|The Virginian]]'' in {{fy|1946{{, McCrea made westerns exclusively for the rest of his career, with the exception of the British-made ''[[Rough Shoot]]'' ({{fy|1953}}).
+[[Category:Nikkō Line]]
+[[Category:Stations of East Japan Railway Company]]
+[[Category:Railway stations opened in 1902]]
+[[ja:鶴田駅]]
-In the 1950s, McCrea appeared in the radio Western procedural police drama, ''[[Tales of the Texas Rangers]]''. <ref>[http://otrcat.com/texas-rangers-p-1916.html "Old Time Radio: Tales of the Texas Rangers"]</ref>
-In {{ytv|1959}}, Joel McCrea and his son Jody McCrea starred in the [[NBC-TV]] series ''[[Wichita Town]]'', which lasted only one season.  A few years later, McCrea1 united with fellow veteran of westerns [[Randolph Scott]] in ''[[Ride the High Country]]'' ({{fy|1962}}), directed by [[Sam Peckinpah]], which was to be his last feature film for four years, when he made ''[[The Young Rounders]]'' ({{fy}1966}}).  Four more years were to pass before his next release, but {{fy|1970}} saw the release of two films: ''[[Cry Blood, Apache]]'' and ''[[Sioux Nation]]''
-McCrea made his last film appearance in {{fy|1976}}, in ''[[Mustang Country]]''.
-McCrea preferred to live the remainder of his life as a rancher; he had begun buying property as early as 1933, when he purchased his first 1,000 acres in [[Thousand Oaks, California]], the bginning of what became a 3,000 acre spread.<ref name=tcmbio /> In 1969, he was inducted into the [[Western Performers Hall of Fame]] at the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]] in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Joel McCrea has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6901 Hollywood Blvd. and another star at 6241 Hollywood Blvd. for his contribution to radio.
-==Personal life==
-McCrea married actress [[Frances Dee]] in 1933, after they met while filming ''[[The Silver Chord]]''.<ref name=tcmbio /><ref>McCrea and Dee appeared together in six films: ''[[The Silver Chord]]'' ({{fy|1933}}), ''[[One Man's Journey]]'' (1933), ''[[Come and Get It]]'' ({{fy|1936}}), ''[[Wells Fargo (film)|Wells Fargo]]'' ({{fy|1937}}), ''[[Four Faces West]]'' ({{fy|1948}}) and ''[[Cattle Drive]]'' ({{fy|1951}}).</ref> The couple had three children, David, who became a rancher, Peter, who both became a real estate developer, and [[Jody McCrea|Jody]], who became an actor.<ref name=tcmbio /> Joel and Frances remained married until his death in [[Woodland Hills, California]] in 1990 from [[pneumonia]] at the age of 84.
-According to David Raban's ''Stars of the '30s'', the McCreas were prodigious savers, accumulating a large estate, which included working-ranch properties. Joel McCrea's work ethic was in part attributed to his Scottish heritage and it also may have stemmed from his friendship in the 1930s with fellow personality and sometime actor, [[Will Rogers]]. McCrea recounted that "the Oklahoma Sage" gave him a profound piece of advice: "Save half of what you make, and live on just the other half."
-During his lifetime, McCrea and his wife Frances lived, raised their children, and rode their horses on their ranch in what was then an unincorporated area of eastern [[Ventura County, California]]. The McCreas ultimately donated several hundred acres of their personal property to the newly formed Conejo Valley [[YMCA]] for the city of [[Thousand Oaks, California]]. Today, the land on which the Conejo Valley YMCA rests is called "Joel McCrea Park".
-==Selected filmography==
-{{col-begin}}
-{{col-2}}
-*''[[The Enemy (1927 film)|The Enemy]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]])
-*''[[The Jazz Age (film)|The Jazz Age]]'' ([[1929 in film|1929]])
-*''[[Girls About Town (film)|Girls About Town]]'' ([[1931 in film|1931]])
-*''[[Business and Pleasure]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]])
-*''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'' (1932)
-*''[[Bird of Paradise (1932 Film)]] (1932)
-*''[[Bed of Roses]] ([[1933 in film|1933]])
-*''[[Gambling Lady]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]])
-*''[[The Richest Girl in the World (1934 film)|The Richest Girl in the World]]'' (1934)
-*''[[Private Worlds]]'' ([[1935 in film|1935]])
-*''[[Barbary Coast (film)|Barbary Coast]]'' (1935)
-*''[[These Three]]'' ([[1936 in film|1936]])
-*''[[Two in a Crowd]]'' (1936)
-*''[[Come and Get It (film)|Come and Get It]]'' (1936)
-*''[[Internes Can't Take Money]]'' ([[1937 in film|1937]])
-*''[[Dead End]]'' (1937)
-*''[[Wells Fargo (film)|Wells Fargo]]'' (1937)
-*''[[Union Pacific (film)|Union Pacific]]'' ([[1939 in film|1939]])
-*''[[He Married His Wife]]'' ([[1940 in film|1940]])
-*''[[Primrose Path (film)|Primrose Path]]'' (1940)
-*''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]'' (1940)
-*''[[Sullivan's Travels]]'' ([[1941 in film|1941]])
-*''[[The Palm Beach Story]]'' ([[1942 in film|1942]])
-*''[[The Great Man's Lady]]'' (1942)
-*''[[The More the Merrier]]'' ([[1943 in film|1943]])
-*''[[Buffalo Bill (1944 film)|Buffalo Bill]]'' ([[1944 in film|1944]])
-*''[[The Virginian (1946 film)|The Virginian]]'' ([[1946 in film|1946]])
-*''[[Ramrod (film)|Ramrod]]'' ([[1947 in film|1947]])
-{{col-2}}
-*''[[Four Faces West]]'' ([[1948 in film|1948]])
-*''[[South of St. Louis]]'' ([[1949 in film|1949]])
-*''[[Colorado Territory (film)|Colorado Territory]]'' (1949)
-*''[[The Outriders]] '' ([[1950 in film|1950]])
-*''[[Stars in My Crown]]'' (1950)
-*''[[Saddle Tramp (film)|Saddle Tramp]]'' (1950)
-*''[[Frenchie]]'' (1950)
-*''[[Cattle Drive]]'' ([[1951 in film|1951]])
-*''[[The San Francisco Story]]'' ([[1952 in film|1952]])
-*''[[Rough Shoot]]'' ([[1953 in film|1953]])
-*''[[Lone Hand]]'' (1953)
-*''[[Border River]]'' ([[1954 in film|1954]])
-*''[[Black Horse Canyon]]'' (1954)
-*''[[Stranger on Horseback]]'' ([[1955 in film|1955]])
-*''[[Wichita (film)|Wichita]]'' (1955)
-*''[[The First Texan]]'' ([[1956 in film|1956]]), featuring son Jody McCrea
-*''[[The Oklahoman (film)|The Oklahoman]]'' ([[1957 in film|1957]])
-*''[[Trooper Hook]]'' (1957)
-*''[[The Tall Stranger]]'' (1957)
-*''[[Cattle Empire]]'' ([[1958 in film|1958]])
-*''[[Fort Massacre]]'' (1958)
-*''[[The Gunfight at Dodge City]]'' ([[1959 in film|1959]])
-*''[[Ride the High Country]]'' ([[1962 in film|1962]])
-*''[[The Young Rounders]]'' ([[1966 in film|1966]])
-*''[[Sioux Nation (film)|Sioux Nation]]'' ([[1970 in film|1970]])
-*''[[Cry Blood, Apache]]'' (1970), starring son Jody McCrea
-*''[[Mustang Country]]'' ([[1976 in film|1976]])
-{{col-end}}
-==Notes==
-{{reflist}}
-==External links==
-{{Commons}}
-* {{imdb name|0566948}}
-* {{amg name|2:47163}}
-* {{tcmdb name|126737}}
-* [http://www.conejovalleyymca.org/ Conejo Valley YMCA]
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-|NAME= McCrea, Joel
-|ALTERNATIVE NAMES= McCrea, Joel Albert
-|SHORT DESCRIPTION=[[Actor]]
-|DATE OF BIRTH= [[November 5]], [[1905]]
-|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[South Pasadena, California]]
-|DATE OF DEATH= [[October 20]], [[1990]], aged 84
-|PLACE OF DEATH= [[Los Angeles, California]]
-}}
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-[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]]
-[[Category:Golden Boot Award winners]]
-[[Category:People from Los Angeles County]]
-[[Category:Pomona College alumni]]
-[[Category:Western film actors]]
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