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Anna Gaël
Anna Abigail Thynn, Marchioness of Bath (née Gyarmathy; 27 September 1943 – 17 September 2022), styled as Viscountess Weymouth between 1969 and 1992, also known by her stage name Anna Gaël, was a Hungarian-British actress and war correspondent. Early life Anna Abigail Gyarmarthy was born on 27 September 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Her father, László Izsak Gyarmathy, was a mathematician and her mother was a poet. She moved to France as a child and began acting when she was fifteen. Career Anna Gyarmarthy acted under the stage name 'Anna Gaël'. She starred in Hungarian, German, Italian, American and French films including ''Via Macau'' in 1966, ''Therese and Isabelle'' in 1968, '' Zeta One'', aka ''The Love Factor'' in 1969, ''The Bridge at Remagen'' in 1969 and ''Take Me, Love Me'' in 1970. She retired from acting in 1981. She worked as a news reporter, covering conflicts in Vietnam, and South Africa as well as the Northern Ireland conflict. Personal life and death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Honourable
The honorific prefix "The Most Honourable" is a form of address that is used in several countries. In the United Kingdom, it precedes the name of a marquess or marchioness. Overview In Jamaica, Governor-General of Jamaica, Governors-General of Jamaica, as well as their spouses, are entitled to be styled "The Most Honourable" upon receipt of the Jamaican Order of the Nation."National Awards of Jamaica" Jamaica Information Service, accessed May 12, 2015. Prime Minister of Jamaica, Prime Ministers of Jamaica, and their spouses, are also styled this way upon receipt of the Order of the Nation, which is only given to Jamaican Governors-General and Prime Ministers. In The Bahamas, the style "The Most Honourable" is given to recipients of the Bahamian Order of the Nation (Bahamas), Order of the Nation. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Blood (1973 Film)
''Blue Blood'' is a 1973 British horror drama film directed and written by Andrew Sinclair and starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Derek Jacobi and Anna Gaël. It was based on the 1972 novel ''The Carry-Cot'' by Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath. Plot Gregory, the young lord of the Swanbrook estate, engages German nanny Beate to care for his children while he pursues a life of debauchery with his mistress Carlotta and their affluent friends. His wife Lily, a touring singer, makes occasional visits. Gregory entrusts all running of the Swanbrook manor house to his menacing butler, Tom, who scorns his weak-willed master's decadent ways and plots to take control. From her interactions with the other servants, Beate comes to realise that Tom is, in many ways, already the true master of Swanbrook. Tom uses dark magic against Beate, Carlotta and Lily, giving them visions of a Satanic ritual involving the sacrifice of Gregory and Lily's son, Edgar. When Edgar and his sister are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Persuaders!
''The Persuaders!'' is a British action comedy television series starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, produced by ITC Entertainment, and initially broadcast on ITV and ABC in 1971. The show has been called 'the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that began 11 years earlier with '' Danger Man'' in 1960', as well as 'the most ambitious and most expensive of Sir Lew Grade's international action adventure series'. ''The Persuaders!'' was filmed in Britain, France, and Italy between May 1970 and June 1971. Despite its focus on the British and American markets, ''The Persuaders!'' became more successful elsewhere.''The Persuaders!'' at Television Heaven It won its highest awards in |
The Bridge At Remagen
''The Bridge at Remagen'' is a 1969 DeLuxe Color war film in Panavision starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara, and Robert Vaughn. The film, which was directed by John Guillermin, was shot in Czechoslovakia. It is based on the nonfiction book ''The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945'' by writer and U.S. Representative Ken Hechler. The screenplay was adapted by Richard Yates and William Roberts. The film is a highly fictionalized version of actual events during the last months of World War II, when the U.S. 9th Armored Division approached Remagen and captured the intact Ludendorff Bridge. While the real battle ran for ten days and involved several artillery duels between the U.S. troops and German defenders, the film focuses more specifically on the heroism and human cost in gaining the bridgehead across the Rhine before the Allies' final advance into Germany. The Remagen bridge was never rebuilt; the towers on each bank were converted into a museum and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of The Missing Girls
''The House of the Missing Girls'' ( French: ''Traquenards''; "Traps") is a 1969 French film directed by Jean-François Davy Jean-François Davy (; 3 May 1945 – 2 May 2025) Cast *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin (1968 Film)
''Benjamin'' (original title: ''Benjamin ou les Mémoires d'un puceau''; U.S title: ''The Diary of an Innocent Boy'') is a 1968 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville who co-wrote the screenplay with Nina Companéez. Plot In the eighteenth century, seventeen-year-old virgin Benjamin comes with his old servant to stay at the estate of his aunt, Countess de Valandry, who is having an affair with Count Philippe. Benjamin is pursued by various women, including the beautiful Anne, who really loves Philippe. Cast *Michèle Morgan as Countess de Valandry. *Catherine Deneuve as Anne * Pierre Clémenti as Benjamin *Michel Piccoli as Count Philippe * Francine Bergé as Marion * Anna Gaël as Célestine * Catherine Rouvel as Victorine *Jacques Dufilho as Camille * Odile Versois as Married woman Production Filming began in June 1967. The day before filming began, Catherine Deneuve's sister and fellow actress Françoise Dorléac had died in a car accident. "It was a painful time in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Commit A Murder
''To Commit a Murder'' (France: ''Peau d'espion'') is a 1967 French neo-noir spy film starring Louis Jourdan. It was one of a series of thrillers directed by Edouard Molinaro in the 1960s. accessed 25 January 2014 The film was based on the 1967 novel ''Peau d'espion'' by Jacques Robert. Plot A playboy writer gets involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist and take him to Red China.Cast * |
Hotel Clausewitz
''Hotel Clausewitz'' (German: ''Pension Clausewitz'') is a 1967 West German comedy film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Wolfgang Kieling, Maria Brockerhoff and Friedrich Schoenfelder. Plot The main character of the story, Stemmka, through an inheritance, becomes the owner of a West Berlin brothel, called "Pension Schölermann". In order to refresh the "establishment", Stemmka immediately hires two attractive young ladies. One of them is Marlies, whose fiancé, Werner, is stuck in East Berlin and was prevented from escaping to the West. Not only is the brothel used for erotic encounters, it also becomes the meeting place of the intelligence services. Among the clients are a West-German nuclear scientist, a Stasi officer, a representative of the CIA and his communist opponent from beyond the Iron Curtain. Marlies wants to free Werner from the Stasi's grip and therefore agrees to cooperate with the GDR, passing on the secrets she learns from pillow talk to the communist enemy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell Is Empty
''Hell is Empty'' is a 1967 British crime film directed by Bernard Knowles and John Ainsworth, and starring Martine Carol, Anthony Steel, Shirley Anne Field and James Robertson Justice. It was written by Ainsworth from a screenplay by Knowles and George Fowler, based on the 1958 novel of the same title by J.F. Straker. Premise On the run from the police, thieves stumble upon an abandoned mansion on a deserted island. Cast * Martine Carol as Martine Grant * Anthony Steel as Major Morton *James Robertson Justice as Angus McGee * Shirley Anne Field as Shirley McGee * Isa Miranda as Isa Grant * Carl Möhner as Carl Schultz *Robert Rietti as Robert Grant *Jess Conrad as Jess Shepherd * Anthony Dawson as Paul Grant *Catherine Schell as Catherine Grant (as Catherine von Schell) * Irene von Meyendorff as Helen McGee *Patricia Viterbo as Patricia * Anna Gaël as Anna * Eugene Deckers as counsel * Sheila Burrell as judge Production The film was made by Absorbing Films, which had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town & Country (magazine)
''Town & Country'', formerly the ''Home Journal'' and ''The National Press'', is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States. History Early history The magazine was founded as ''The National Press'' by poet and essayist Nathaniel Parker Willis and ''New York Evening Mirror'' newspaper editor George Pope Morris in 1846. Eight months later, it was renamed ''The Home Journal''. After 1901, the magazine's name became ''Town & Country'', and it has retained that name ever since. Throughout most of the 19th century, this weekly magazine featured poetry, essays, and fiction. As more influential people began reading it, the magazine began to include society news and gossip in its pages. After 1901, the magazine continued to chronicle the social events and leisure activities of the North American upper class, including debutante or cotillion balls, and also reported on the subsequent "advantageous marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oladipo Jadesimi
Chief Oladipo "Ladi" Jadesimi is a Nigerian oil businessman and founder of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base, where he serves as the executive chairman. Education and career Oladipo Jadesimi completed his secondary school education at King's College, Lagos. He graduated from Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ... in 1966 with M.A. and L.L.B. degrees in Jurisprudence, and began working as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in London. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (F.C.A.). He is a founding partner in Arthur Andersen Nigeria, where he serves as an Independent Financial Consultant, and a major investor in the Niger Delta Oil Company. He was appointed the director of Niger Delta Exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
